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Book review

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 378 Collections and/or Records:

[A B Z] / Kopelnitsky, Igor., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-32433-34007
Scope and Contents

Kopelnitsky illustrates a review of the poems of Phillip Levine with a letter picture of a man, composed of A and B, hammering WORD on stand of the letter Z, reflecting the poet's early life as a manual laborer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

A Book in Which Nothing Happens / Anonymous; Thaler M; Perec G; Castillejo JL; Wright C., 2004

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Identifier: CC-43321-45380
Scope and Contents

This article reviews Michel Thaler's "The Train From Nowhere" (in French and held by the Sackner Archive). This book does not have any verbs following in the tradition of Pindar ("Ode Minus Sigma"), Lope Carpio ( five novels without vowels). Gottlob Burmann (130 poems without r's), George Perec ("La Disparition," "Les Revantes"), Charles Vincent Wright ("Gadsby"). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

A Brush with Death: A Painter Writes of Murder among the Abstract Expressionists / Kino, Carol; Santlofer J ., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44169-46295
Scope and Contents

This essay is a review of book by Jonathan Santlofer "The Killing Art." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

A Modern Master's Poeme Concrete / Kostelanetz, Richard; Cage J., 1990

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Identifier: CC-07913-8067
Scope and Contents

Review of Cage's book, "I-IV." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Abracadabra [Los Angeles]. No.2/Aug., 1988

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Identifier: CC-24303-24755
Scope and Contents

The Altered Page catalog (Sackner Archive) from the Center for Book Arts exhibition is mentioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Alejandro, Critic and Cuckold / Atlas, James; Abish W., 1993

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Identifier: CC-26518-26987
Scope and Contents

An introduction to Walter Abish's latest book analyzes his first work "Alphabetical Africa" which is held by the Sackner Archive. In that book, the first chapter consists soley of words beginning with A and each chapter introduces a new letter of the alphabet until Z. Then a letter is removed from each chapter until the final one consisting again of all A words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

All Talk, No Action: A Funeral for Verbs, with Few Pallbearers / Bryan-Low, Cassell; Morice, Anne-Michele; Perec G; Thaler M., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42646-44664
Scope and Contents

This is a front page review of "Le Train de Nulle Part" (The Train to Nowhere) by Michel Thaler, the non de plume of Michel Dansel. The novel is written without any verbs - heavy on exclamation points and dashes. It is of the same genre as George Perec's work without any e's. The review itself is written without verbs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

American Book Collector. No.2/Mar-Apr., 1983

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Identifier: CC-24720-25173
Scope and Contents

Contains essay on the history of the Chap Book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983