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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 186 Collections and/or Records:

Temple , 2008

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-49395-70440
Scope and Contents

This work is also designated as Card 22 from "Stories from the Flats." Tom Kryss contributed the envelope and cover designs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

[the 1st of January] / Melnikov-Starquist, Willi., 1997

 Item — Box 396: [Barcode: 31858072461605]
Identifier: CC-55947-9999415
Scope and Contents

This is a letter addressed to Mr. Marvin Sackner! " Great thanks for your wonderful catalog!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Attached to "Hieroglypoetry especially for Mr. Marvin Sackner"

Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / NOT COBBING

The Book of Broken Speech / Seille, Genevieve., 1994

 Item — Box 578: [Barcode: 31858072463338]
Identifier: CC-28878-30200
Scope and Contents

The 'pages' consist of seven lengths of string fixed to the inside at the spine onto which have been collaged several fragments of paper with a handwritten word, e.g., clear, their, from, rare, sand, tightly, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / S / Seille, Genevieve

The Brain of the Monster, 1989

 Item — Box 620: [Barcode: 31858072461076]
Identifier: CC-02633-2676
Scope and Contents

The cover has calligraphic text by Seille. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Geneviève Seillé

The Eight: Fragments of Letters to the World, 1976

 Item — Box 636: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-18924-19302
Dates: 1976
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / Oversized A-C

The Memoirs Of Vladimir M., 1989

 Item — Box 306: [Barcode: 31858073143608]
Identifier: CC-02245-2285
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

The Observer, 2000

 Item — Box 628: [Barcode: 31858072464682]
Identifier: CC-34305-36000
Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / B / Babenko, Dmitry

The Origins of Father Christmas / Cobbing, Bob., 1980

 Item — Box 387: [Barcode: 31858072461522]
Identifier: CC-17567-17933
Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / Art Material

The Prayer, 2000

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Scope and Contents

Inked drawing of a man smoking as men and eyes surround him. Signed by artist

Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / B / Babenko, Dmitry

The Same Proximity, 1989

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-22704-23139
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

The Shroud, 2006

 Item — Box 135: [Barcode: 31858072457835]
Identifier: CC-47959-68982
Scope and Contents This work is a masterpiece of poetic embroidery with varied styles for the lettering. The phrases read as follows: 1) lifedeath, 2) heebiejeebies, 3) snuffflick, 4) zigzag, 5) duckyducky, 6) deadend, 7) gangplank, 8) zebrazebra, 9) lushlush, 10) be all end all, 11) finiteinfinite, 12) cockeyed & cuckoo, 13) homesick 14) BAH HUMBUG, 15) fuckyfucky, 16) 2010, 17) mamapapbaba, 18) zerozero, 19) hooplahoopla, 20) toom tchoop poom, 21) i cant sell it, 22) perky & chirpy, 23) sporty & forty, 24) holdminehand, 25) hubbahubba, 26) doublewide, 27) eyeball, 28) ojo por ojo, 29) davey crockett ma kettle, 30) i stand corrected, 31) wow, 32) gee, 33) holy cow, 34) la la, 35) dirty dip, 36) dog paddle, 37) sawbuck, 38) juicehead, 39) gummer, 40) gibberish, 41) invisible ink, 42) hotrod, 43) snap hold kick, 44) 2 sides, 45) sing, 46) alfalfa, 47) rhododenron, 48) i, and 49) croak. Sloy wrote to the Sackners: it took a long time to make. 'lifedeath' was embroidered in 2000. 'croak' was...
Dates: 2006
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / nic and sloy

The Splintered Page: Homage to Asa Beneviste, 1990

 Item — Box 47: [Barcode: 31858072538675]
Identifier: CC-08841-9016
Scope and Contents

Work done in homage to Asa Beneviste, the American expatriate poet/publisher, who died in Yorkshire at age 64 of diabetes. The signs derive from original Welsh alphabets as Wales is closest to both Beneviste and Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Jack Hirschman

This Taggy Cloud Sculptured, 1989

 Item — Box 153: [Barcode: 31858072459294]
Identifier: CC-15684-16013
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Joëlle Dautricourt

[Tibetan Scriptures], 1970

 Item — Box 272: [Barcode: 31858072460938]
Identifier: CC-24888-25341
Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / Anonymous

[Tre pination], 1999

 Item — Box 327: [Barcode: 31858072490943]
Identifier: CC-36587-38392
Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

turnings xmas69, 1969

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-53338-59714
Scope and Contents

Houedard wrote this poem with his typical printed letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / Dom Sylvester Houedard

[Two pot holders], 2003

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-41453-43438
Dates: 2003
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

V.B. in Vitro, 1980

 Item — Box 631: [Barcode: 31858072464716]
Identifier: CC-20853-21262
Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Vittore Baroni

Venus of the Hours, 1975

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-12364-12590
Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / Ian Hamilton Finlay

Visual Poem , 1996

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-60282-10003283
Scope and Contents

This work was included in pete spence's archive. This "visual poem" as designated by Babenko consists solely of language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / B / Babenko, Dmitry