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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 526 Collections and/or Records:

Head, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51991-73093
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Hedgehogs Announce Annual Turnover / Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1967

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-12406-12632
Scope and Contents

This is a duplicate print from Finlay's portfolio Headlines:Eavelines. The word, "turnover" in this copy are orange whereas the print in the portfolio is brown.The verso has the following inscription: "from Evalines / Headlines by I.H.F. and students at Bath Academy of Art Openings Press." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Henri et Jean, 1977

 Item — Folder 32: [Barcode: 31858072459914]
Identifier: CC-19781-20168
Scope and Contents

The large letters, H and J, stand for Henri and Jean as a celebration of their 25th wedding anniversary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Honey by the Water, 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-12917-13209
Scope and Contents

The edition includes 1000 copies in paper wrappers, 200 copies numbered and signed by Finlay and 26 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray lettered and signed by Finlay. Consists of a collection of previously published concrete poems and seven sundial drawings. Stephen Bann contributes an afterword of seven pages. In it, he describes Finlay's widespread usage of metaphor and calls attention to his current work based upon Classicism and Symbolism. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Honey by the Water, 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-12918-13210
Scope and Contents

The edition includes 1000 copies in paper wrappers, 200 copies numbered and signed by Finlay and 26 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray lettered and signed by Finlay. Consists of a collection of previously published concrete poems and seven sundial drawings. Stephen Bann contributes an afterword of seven pages. In it, he describes Finlay's widespread usage of metaphor and calls attention to his current work based upon Classicism and Symbolism. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

[I was a trophy wife], 1992

 Item — Folder 30: [Barcode: 31858072459898]
Identifier: CC-15717-16046
Scope and Contents

The piece has writing on it in two places, reading, "I was a trophy wife" and "After us the savage god."

Dates: 1992

Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Visual Primer, 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-10947-11159
Scope and Contents

Perhaps the best treatment accorded to the life and work of a concrete poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Ian Hamilton Finlay: Prints, 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-52159-73278
Scope and Contents

Prudence Carlson wrote the essay for this catalogue. The Sackners attended this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Idioms of 'Krete: Selections of idiomorphic concrete poetry, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-46317-49040
Scope and Contents

One poem is printed on each of the pages except for a few pages with brief commentary.The following text is printed on the back cover. "Literature is the only artform whose organon is already symbolic. Concrete poetry has always been devoted to the breakdown of the assumed symbolism, either to reform a new one or to celebrate raw, lingual materiality for its own sake. While one branch seeks a new understanding of what was always there through this breakdown - most evident in 'found poetry' - and this is called the 'collective branch'; the other, the ideomorphic, seeks to forever push the process into fresh and singular dislocation. Here are three poets with the latter propensity: Haiku-focused LeRoy Gorman with his constuctivist tendencies, the more sculptural Daniel f. Bradley, minimalist panache in tow and cheek and the graphically ham-fisted Marshall Hryciuk, who feels positively didactic next to the other two." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Ignore This Sign, 1986

 Item — Box 334: [Barcode: 31858072491032]
Identifier: CC-32403-33974
Scope and Contents

The concrete poems by Belsey in this book are highly innovative and entertaining. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986