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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

12 Colorborations / Bennett, John M. ; Ernst, Kathy ; Grumman, Bob ; Helmes, Scott., 2004

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Identifier: CC-44015-46128
Scope and Contents

Bob Grumman contributed an introductory essay "Instigator Grumman's Introductions." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

An April Poem / Grumman, Bob., 1989

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Identifier: CC-09917-10114
Scope and Contents

The poems use solely the word "rain" with the dot above the 'i' being varies from shading to added words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

dbqp: pnd. No.7/Sep / Bob Grumman., 1987

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Identifier: CC-14915-15228
Scope and Contents

Also designated one cent #190 (held by Sackner Archive) and Hit Broadside #2. Grumman utilizes blank space as a visual representation of the pond (pnd). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Excursion Through Picturing Verbilizations, Verbalizing Pictures / Grumman, Bob; cummings ee; Johnson R; Deisler G; Saroyan A; Hill A; Finlay IH., 1982

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Identifier: CC-49500-70546
Scope and Contents

This essay is an excellent critique and analysis of selected poems that Grumman ties together. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Fission / Kempton, Karl ; Grumman B ; cummings ee ; Patchen K ; Huth G., 1988

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Identifier: CC-32347-33914
Scope and Contents

Bob Grumman wrote the introduction in which he comments on the form of Kempton's poems whereby a word is split into two or more words by intervening spaces. He mentions that G. Huth designated this form as a severlation. These poems are printed one to a page, e.g., artifact = art if act, justice = just ice, herring = her ring, netherlands = net her lands, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Mathemaku for Beethoven / Grumman, Bob., 1999

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Identifier: CC-34071-35751
Scope and Contents

The word "understanding" is typed repeatedly in four variations on a sky blue background. The top of the pages contain a blue colored rectangle, a division mark, and the words, "the sky," The fourth sheet also says "explainability" and contains a line of music and minimal poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Mathemaku for K.S. Ernst / Grumman, Bob., 2001

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Identifier: CC-37490-39343
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 2001

one cent: pnd. No.190/Sep / Bob Grumman., 1987

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Identifier: CC-05279-5382
Scope and Contents

Also designated dbqp No.7 and Hit Broadside #2. Grumman utilizes blank space as a visual representation of the pond (pnd). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Poem for RK / Bob Grumman., 1993

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Identifier: CC-10503-10707
Scope and Contents

RK in title presumably is the designation for Richard Kostelanetz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Poem for RK / Bob Grumman., 1993

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Identifier: CC-10503-10707
Scope and Contents

RK in title presumably is the designation for Richard Kostelanetz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

poemns / Grumman, Bob., 1997

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Identifier: CC-30805-32251
Scope and Contents

Grumman writes in the introduction to this small volume of poetry that he wrote the verses in 1966 when he was twenty five and Cummings work was all that he knew of "visual poetry." The Sackner Archive also holds the 1966 self-published edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

poemns / Grumman, Bob., 1966

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Identifier: CC-30806-32252
Scope and Contents

This volume is the first, self published book by Robert Jeremy Grumman aka Bob Grumman. The Sackner Archive holds the Runaway Spoon Press edition reprinted in slightly smaller format in 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966