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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Bay-Brested Barge-Bird / Smith, William Jay., 1957

 Item
Identifier: CC-42628-44645
Scope and Contents

This is the first draft of the poem that eventually became a larger conventional poem that was published in "The Tin Can and Other Poems" (1966), a book also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

Plain Talk / Smith, William Jay., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-42594-44610
Scope and Contents

This is a photocopy of the manuscript of Plain Talk. The Sackner Archive holds two versions of this work. Smith describes the book as "Epigrams, Epitaphs, Satires, Nonsense, Occasional Concrete & Quotidian Poems." This work that was acquired from a North Carolina bookseller prompted the Sackner's interest in Smith's poetry. William Jay Smith did not know how this copy came into the hands of the bookseller. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Plain Talk / Smith, William Jay., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-42595-44611
Scope and Contents

This is a photocopy of the manuscript for Plain Talk. The Sackner Archive holds two versions of this work. Smith describes the book as "Epigrams, Epitaphs, Satires, Nonsense, Occasional Concrete & Quotidian Poems." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Plain Talk / Smith, William Jay ; Minsky R ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-39502-41459
Scope and Contents

Book is dedicated to Ruth and Marvin Sackner. The bookbinding was made by Richard Minsky who also treated the paper of the book with Wei T'o spray for neutralizing against acids as explained on the cover text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Plain Talk / Smith, William Jay ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-39462-41418
Scope and Contents

The book is dedicated to Ruth and Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Plain Talk / Smith, William Jay ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-39503-41460
Scope and Contents

The book is dedicated to Ruth and Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

The Bead Curtain / Smith, William Jay., 1957

 Item
Identifier: CC-42602-44618
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts single poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

The Butterfly Gull / Smith, William Jay., 1957

 Item
Identifier: CC-42627-44644
Scope and Contents

This is the first draft of the poem that eventually became a larger conventional poem that was published in, "Laughting Time" (1980), a book also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

The Old Man on the Isthmus / Smith, William Jay., 1957

 Item
Identifier: CC-42630-44647
Scope and Contents

This is the finished drawing for the printed Christmas card with the same title. It was partially typed and then Smith drew over the typed characters in blue ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

The Old Man on the Isthmus / Smith, William Jay., 1957

 Item
Identifier: CC-42631-44648
Scope and Contents

This is a preliminary drawing for the printed Christmas card with the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

The Old Man on the Isthmus / Smith, William Jay., 1957

 Item
Identifier: CC-42632-44649
Scope and Contents

This is a preliminary drawing for the printed Christmas card with the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

The Old Man on the Isthmus / Smith, William Jay., 1957

 Item
Identifier: CC-42633-44650
Scope and Contents

This is the printed Christmas card (1957) sent to William Jay Smith's friends. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

The Pyramid of the Louvre / Smith, William Jay., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-02069-2107
Scope and Contents

This is the original version of the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Unpublished: [MAN AT TYPEWRITER] [57] / Smith, William Jay., 1958

 Item
Identifier: CC-57483-10000777
Scope and Contents

The image is of a man who enjoys sitting at his typewriter drawing pictures of people sitting at their typewriters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958