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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6520 Collections and/or Records:

A Number Progression (Wump Ertater) 1st Ed / Cobbing, Jennifer., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-17455-17821
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum Folder 8. Each papercard sheet depicts a single stencilled, printed number, from 1 to 10, with 2 to 10 having repetitive overlays. The author is also known as Jennifer Pike and is the wife of Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

A Number Progression (Wump Ertater) 2nd Ed / Cobbing, Jennifer., 1990

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Identifier: CC-17452-17817
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum Folder 8. Each sheet depicts a single stencilled, printed number, from 1 to 10, with 2 to 10 having repetitive overlays. This second edition differs from the first in that the collaged element on the envelope is blue rather than yellow and the loose sheets are photocopied and have larger dimensions. The author is also known as Jennifer Pike and is the wife of Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

A Papa Dada / Chopin, Henri., 1966

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Identifier: CC-18717-19091
Scope and Contents

This is the original of a typing which appears in Chopin's book, "Le Dernier Roman du Monde." It consists of four letter words of two identical syllables such as papa, nana, caca, gaga, etc. with the vowel 'a.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

A Peal in Air / Cobbing, Bob., 1968

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Identifier: CC-17750-18119
Scope and Contents

The verso of this drawing became a printed concrete poem by Jiri Valoch entitled Structure 1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

A Peal in Air / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

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Identifier: CC-18726-19100
Scope and Contents

Text on this poster indicates that Cobbing's "visual poems are either notations for sound poems or complex monotypes using many techniques to destroy or re-create the word." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

A Peal In Air for Apollinaire, 1968

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Identifier: CC-19420-19803
Scope and Contents

This work depicts six poems arranged in a grid. It relates to a sculptural work also held by the Sackner Archive that was exhibited in the Apollinaire ICA exhibition in London 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

a peal in air for apollinaire & marvomovies, 1974

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Identifier: CC-19984-20372
Scope and Contents

This print depicts two of cobbing's prints and was presumably distributed as an announcement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

A Performance of Concrete and Sound Poetry/An Exhibition of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Cobbing, Bob ; Fencott, P.C. ; Marvin Sackner ; Ruth Sackner., 1982

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Identifier: CC-17287-17648
Scope and Contents

The exhibition was curated by Ruth and Marvin Sackner. The catalogue was issued on the occasion of the exhibition and performance of Cobbing and Fencott at the Richter Library, University of Miami, February 25, 1982. The exhibition and performance was sponsored by Josephine Johnson, University of Miami. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

A : plan for a monument / curry, jw., 1982

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Identifier: CC-56637-10000036
Scope and Contents

This work was printed in Interstate No.15, 1982, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

A Poem / curry, jw., 1983

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Identifier: CC-19724-20111
Scope and Contents

This drawing first published as Curvd H&Z No.208, 1983 was later included in can't afford no Kodak Instamatik Instamatik Vol.2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

A Poke in the I: A Collection of Concrete Poems / Janeczko, Paul B., editor ; Raschka, Chris ; Morgan E ; Johnson R ; Hollander J ; Williams E ; Saroyan A ; Solt ME ; Finlay IH ; Dohl R ; Froman R ; Chasin H ; Thibaudeau C ; Graham J., 2001

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Identifier: CC-37321-39172
Scope and Contents

Janeczko selected the concrete poems in books published by established concrete poets. Chris Raschka illustrated the poems with semirealistic and surrealistic comic-like characters to create picture poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001