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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 108 Collections and/or Records:

6 Cleveland Prints Vol 2 / levy, d.a.., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-33540-35190
Scope and Contents

d.a.levy was the owner of the Renegade Press. None of the prints have linear, readable elements. This copy has a two duplicate prints entitled, "lakefront at night" which was a separate purchase in 1981. The signed levy print is entitled, "leos casino." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Admissible Evidence (Random Sightings) / levy, d.a. ; Taylor, Kent., 2003

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Identifier: CC-44269-46399
Scope and Contents

The book includes conventional poems, some with minor typographic enhancements. The CD consists of readings by levy and Taylor remastered from audiotape (1967). The cover was designed by alan horvath. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Aleatory Letters / Taylor, Kent ; levy, d.a.., 1964

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Identifier: CC-01261-1292
Scope and Contents

The pages of this book depict scattered letters and unintelligible words in different type faces. levy was the owner of Renegade Press. According to Kent Taylor in a personal communication (1997) to the Sackners, the cover image and print was done by him rather than levy. Further, this image differs between the two copies of this book held by the Sackner Archive.*WEB 1998: Richard Aaron, Am Here Books: This is an Exhibition Catalogue.*WEB 1999: Kent Taylor, I'm baffled by Richard Aaron's comment about Aleatory Letters being an 'exhibition catalogue'. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Aleatory Letters / Taylor, Kent ; levy, d.a.., 1964

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Identifier: CC-01262-1293
Scope and Contents

The pages of this book depict scattered letters and unintelligible words in different type faces. levy was the owner of Renegade Press. According to Kent Taylor in a personal communication (1997) to the Sackners, the cover image and print was done by him rather than levy. Further, the image differs between the two copies of this book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

American Renegades: Kenneth Patchen, d.a.levy, D.r.Wagner / Patchen, Kenneth ; levy, d.a. ; Wagner, D.r. ; Patchen M ; Swanberg I ; Taylor K ; Crane M ; Bottoms R ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 1992

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Identifier: CC-26499-26968
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive lent several works of the three artist-poets to the exhibition including Cleveland Prints, The North American Book of the Dead, Scarab Poems by d.a. levy; The Journal of Albion Moonlight, Cloth of the Tempest, Sleepers Awake by Kenneth Patchen; 18th Dynasty Egyptian Turnon by D.r. Wagner. Although there was no check list with the catalogue, the superb installation photographs of the books and prints in cases more than make up for this oversight. The suite of collages entitled Zen Concrete on display at this exhibition were purchased by the Sackners from Ingrid Swanberg in 2008. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

An H in teh Heart: A Reader / Nichol, bp ; Bowering G ; Ondaatje M ; levy da ; Gorman L ; Cobbing B ; Smith St ; Kroetsch R ; McCaffery S., 1994

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Identifier: CC-48506-69535
Scope and Contents

The works for this volume were selected by George Bowering and Michael Ondaatje who respectively contributed a forward and an afterward. Nichol provide several hilarious stories about body parts. This book includes a graphic novella illustrated with photographs of Nichol and his friends. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Arts & Letters / Austin, Tom; Sackner RK; Sackner MA; Lemaitre M; levy da ; Lissitzky E., 1992

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Identifier: CC-26482-26951
Scope and Contents

Austin writes that "by turning their home into a museum, collectors Ruth and Marvin Sackner have made concrete and visual poetry more like household words." The article and interview concisely defines and describes the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

awake in th red desert !!, 1968

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Identifier: CC-30440-31861
Scope and Contents

Some of these books contained a 33 1/3 rpm record; this copy did not. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Black hat at the end of the bar / Khu-En-Oho\aka d.a. levy ; The Dragon Lady Mara\aka Mara ; Davis J., 2004

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Identifier: CC-59874-10002930
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by the publisher and printer, Jason Davis. This title was first printed by 400 Rabbit Press, Cleveland 1966 in 120 copies. The layout of the poem on the right sid e of the page is reminiscent of ee cummings' style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Black hat at the end of the bar / Khu-En-Oho\aka d.a. levy ; The Dragon Lady Mara\aka Mara ; Davis J., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42950-44994
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by the publisher and printer, Jason Davis. This title was first printed by 400 Rabbit Press, Cleveland 1966 in 120 copies. The layout of the poem on the right side of the page is reminiscent of ee cummings' style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Brushed Poems & a Little Putsch / Morris, Richard Allen ; levy da., 1963

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Identifier: CC-45525-47724
Scope and Contents

d.a. levy designed the cover. This book is the second printing; it was first published in Pacific Beach California by an unstated publisher on an unstated date. One page has an ink addition by d.a. levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

[card to jacob leed re Paris Review] / levy, d.a.., 1968

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Identifier: CC-07339-7483
Scope and Contents

levy wrutes about contributions of concrete poetry being solicited for a forthcoming issue of Paris Review. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[Collages] / levy, d.a.., 1968

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Identifier: CC-07435-7579
Scope and Contents

This is a selection of Madison collages published by Quixote that may have been used in the course taught by levy at the University of Wisconsin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Cornponetonepome / Heckman, Carl ; levy da., 1963

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Identifier: CC-09799-9993
Scope and Contents

d.a. levy was the proprietor of Renegade Press. The title poem was set in the style of e.e. cummings. The poems entitled "Sound Poems" are actually tongue-twisters. This was Heckman's only book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Curvd H&Z: Weed. No.165/Nov / d.a. levy., 1982

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Identifier: CC-18314-18686
Scope and Contents

This is the 2nd edition of a poem first published by Ganglia in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982