Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (1 of 3)
Contains 29 Results:
Why Shiva Has Ten Arms, 1969
Designated writers forum folder number seven. This tenth publication of Cobbing includes new versions of the following poems: "Soma," "Whisper Piece," "Vertigo," "Marvo Movies Natter," and "Transcript." Colophon states "Why Shiva has ten arms / for he represents the dance of life / the omnipotence of being able to do innumerably / many things at once / .the joyous cosmology -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Octo, 1969
Designated Writers Forum Folder number five. This is the first edition. Poems contained in Octo "Are Your Children Safely in the Sea?" "Integration Alone Is Not Enough," "Spontaeous Appealinair Contemprate Apollinaire," and "Marvo Movies Natter." Each poem is presented in two versions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Octo, 1969
Designated Writers Forum Folder number five. This is the first edition. Poems contained in Octo "Are Your Children Safely in the Sea?" "Integration Alone Is Not Enough," "Spontaeous Appealinair Contemprate Apollinaire," and "Marvo Movies Natter." Each poem is presented in two versions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Sacred Mushroom / Cobbing, Bob., 1975
Five Visual Poems, 1971
Designated writers forum folder number nine. Poems include "Worm," "Typestract," "Grin," "Are Your Children Safe in the Sea," and "Spontaneous Appealinair." The earliest poem, "Worm" was initially written in 1954 and then revised in 1964. Reprints several poems published in "Eyerun" 1966, also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Scorch Scores, 1977
Designated folders number twenty-one. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Ginetics, 1978
Designated folders number twenty-four. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Four Letter Poems, 1981
Four Letter Poems: Second Series, 1981
Songsignals, 1971
Edited by Peter Finch. This is issue No.1 of Second Aeon Folder series; the second and final number, J.P. Wards's "From Alphabet to Logos," is also held by the Sackner Archive. In the introduction, Cobbing describes how he altered the found poems in this work to their final form. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Prosexual, 1984
Processual Quintet: Pre-Publication Copy, 1984
A Processual Supplement, 1986
Variations on a Theme, 1986
Anan An' Nan, 1977
Tentative Titles for a Welsh Xmas Piece, 1969
Ulli's Sett, 1994
Deus-Snap, 1987
[Contribution for one word issue of Impulse], 1990
[Letter to Henri Chopin Sep 7, 1983], 1983
This letter is a lengthy polemic in which Cobbing argues with Chopin's assertions on contesting the history of sound poetry. He dates and mentions his own performances of sound poetry from his first attempts in 1942. He argues with Chopin on the dating of the works of Heidsieck, Wolman, de Vree, Lockwood, Dufrene, Gysin and Jandl. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
