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Why Shiva Has Ten Arms, 1969

 Item — Box: Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (1 of 3)
Identifier: CC-17448-17813
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1969

Octo, 1969

 Item — Box: Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (1 of 3)
Identifier: CC-17450-17815
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1969

Octo, 1969

 Item — Box: Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (1 of 3)
Identifier: CC-17451-17816
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1969

Five Visual Poems, 1971

 Item — Box: Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (1 of 3)
Identifier: CC-17494-17860
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1971

Scorch Scores, 1977

 Item — Box: Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (1 of 3)
Identifier: CC-17503-17869
Scope and Contents

Designated folders number twenty-one. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Ginetics, 1978

 Item — Box: Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (1 of 3)
Identifier: CC-17506-17872
Scope and Contents

Designated folders number twenty-four. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Songsignals, 1971

 Item — Box: Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (1 of 3)
Identifier: CC-17539-17905
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1971

[Letter to Henri Chopin Sep 7, 1983], 1983

 Item — Box: Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (1 of 3)
Identifier: CC-19985-20373
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1983