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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Festival Internacional de Poesia Viva, First (Second Presentation) / Fernando Aguiar, curator ; Vigo EA ; Higgins D ; Kempton K ; Blaine J ; Heidsieck B ; Papp T ; Bentivoglio M ; Nannucci M ; Xerra W ; Ori L ; Lora-Totino A ; Maggi R ; Adler J ; Claire P ; Aguiar F ; Aragao A ; Hatherly A ; Pimenta A ; Olbrich JO ; Groh K., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-13034-13326
Scope and Contents

Second presentation of the First International Festival of Live Poetry (first exhibition catalogue is also held by the Sackner Archive). This exhibition included selected originals and photographs from the first exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Festival Internacional de Poesia Viva, First (Second Presentation) / Fernando Aguiar, curator ; Vigo EA ; Higgins D ; Kempton K ; Blaine J ; Heidsieck B ; Papp T ; Bentivoglio M ; Nannucci M ; Xerra W ; Ori L ; Lora-Totino A ; Maggi R ; Adler J ; Claire P ; Aguiar F ; Aragao A ; Hatherly A ; Pimenta A ; Olbrich JO ; Groh K., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-13035-13327
Scope and Contents

Second presentation of the First International Festival Of Live Poetry (first presentation also held by Sackner Archive) held one year after the initial exhibition. This exhibition included selected originals and photographs of the first exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

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

 Item
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

Kaldron: First International Visual Poetry Issue. No.8 / Karl Kempton, David Arnold, editors ; Cross D ; Wolf-Rehfeldt R ; Proust R ; Bell M ; Lora-Totino A ; Buchwalder E ; Dencker KP ; Porter B ; Marcus A ; Gaglione B ; Dantas CH ; Silva F ; Bruscky P ; Petasz P ; Kempton K ; Essary L ; Helmes S ; Zarate A ; Patchen K., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-36651-38462
Scope and Contents

Most of the visual poems in this issue were exhibited at VISUALOG at the Julian A. Mcphee gallery, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, March 1979. Kempton also provided an insightful essay on the place of Kenneth Patchen in the origins of concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Portrait of Texture / Kempton, Karl., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33753-35417
Scope and Contents

The book consists of computer made constructivist images formed from letters. These works are presented one to each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Rose Window / Kempton, Karl., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33752-35416
Scope and Contents

In this book, Kempton composed circular, computer made poems that are formed from letters. They are presented one on each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Rune 6: Figures of Speech / Kempton, Karl., 1992

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Identifier: CC-56253-9999697
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Rune 6: Figures of Speech / Kempton, Karl ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 1993

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Identifier: CC-08047-8207
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Rune 6: Figures of Speech: to speak / Kempton, Karl., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-56327-9999751
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Rune 7: Poem, A Mapping / Kempton, Karl., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-08046-8206
Scope and Contents

Each page contains a typewriter poem using the word, "poem." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Typewriter: Rune 2: 26 Voices/January Interlude. No.10 / Karl Kempton., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-56057-64878
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980