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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 426 Collections and/or Records:

Poetendo, 1998

 Item — Box 188: [Barcode: 31858072459583]
Identifier: CC-31294-32767
Scope and Contents

Caruso created a CD with handwritten text, white paint, collaged paper additions and torn paper for this unique poem object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Poetry First, 1993

 Item — Box 256: [Barcode: 31858072458254]
Identifier: CC-03110-3158
Scope and Contents

The porcelain cup is inscribed "Poetry First" on one side and Petr Sevcik on the other side. The shipping box is collaged in part with poems taken from newspapers by Chistian Morgenstern and Ernst Jandl. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Poetry Information, 1974

 Item — Box 312: [Barcode: 31858072490828]
Identifier: CC-25593-26051
Scope and Contents

This is a cover design for the periodical.The uneveness of the abstract images suggests that this work is a drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Poetry News Letter, 2003

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-57970-10001228
Scope and Contents

This is a design for Poetry Newsletter in New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Poetry Visual, 2001

 Item — Box 336: [Barcode: 31858072491115]
Identifier: CC-37488-39341
Scope and Contents

Bennett gave this drawing to the Sackners during his visit to the Archive in June 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Polar Bear Poster Poem, 1965

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-12898-13189
Scope and Contents

In this poem, Furnival plays with permutations of bear, the personal pronouns, ours & nous (we in English from the French), and son using his distinctive calligraphic printed letterform style. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" (2011) page 56. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Port Distinguishing Letters of Scottish Fishing Vessels, 1978

 Item — Box 190: [Barcode: 31858072459609]
Identifier: CC-12416-12643
Scope and Contents

Consists of the port letters and numbers of Scottish fishing vessels fired in green on a white background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Portrait of My Mother, 1977

 Item — Folder 56: [Barcode: 31858072537909]
Identifier: CC-21851-22262
Scope and Contents

Portrait taken from an old photograph and found personal records. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Psalm One, 1984

 Item — Folder 4: [Barcode: 31858072459427]
Identifier: CC-36484-38281
Scope and Contents

This drawing is an exposition of Psalm One. Boshoff comments, "I once, in 1976, gave talks on the Psalms in an old age home, and at one time, in the early eighties, I thought it might be a good idea to write notes on all the psalms like the ones on Psalm One." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Purisima Sex Addict II , 1997

 Item — Box 318: [Barcode: 31858072490778]
Identifier: CC-34328-36023
Scope and Contents

Jake Berry did the drawing for the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Random Sightings (d.a. has left the building), 1999

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-48658-69690
Scope and Contents

The cover photograph is by Alan Horvath. Includes several poems and polemics against the Vietnam war as handwritten manuscripts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Recit-Gît (Edition Parallele), 1989

 Item — Box 121: [Barcode: 31858072458072]
Scope and Contents

This edition of the object is described as parallel to the original (designed as wood slabes in a wooden case).

Dates: 1989