Spatial Poem / Shiomi, Mieko ; Knowles A ; Maciunas G ; Berner J ; Brecht G ; Brown J ; Cage J ; Crozier R ; Damen H ; Houedard DS ; Watts R ; Valoch J ; Padin C ; Porter B ; Roth D ; Sharkey JJ ; Novak L ; McCarthy C ; MacLow J ; Kolar J ; Coutts-Smith K., 1976
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Scope and Contents
Records the results in visual/verbal form of instructions sent to 238 participants world-wide on poems that produced nine events, e.g., word, direction, falling, shadow, open, orbit, sound wind, and disappearing during 1965-1975. Examples of these instructions follow. For the word event, the instructions were "write a word or words on the enclosed card and place it somewhere." For the open event, the instructions were "open something which is closed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 1976
Creator
- Shiomi, Mieko, 1938- (Person)
Extent
0 See container summary (1 soft cover book (70 pages)) ; 21 x 27.2 x .7 cm
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Location
queued for cataloging 2023-09-01 DJK
box shelf alcove off 2nd bedroom
Custodial History
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.
General
Published: Osaka, Japan : Mieko Shiomi. Nationality of creator: Japanese. General: About 500 total copies. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
125 W. Washington St.
Main Library
Iowa City Iowa 52242 United States
319-335-5921