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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1131 Collections and/or Records:

36. In the Beginning / Furnival, John., 1965

 Item — Folder 39: [Barcode: 31858072459997]
Identifier: CC-34080-35760
Scope and Contents

The poster depicts a stylized phallus formed from letters with a center channel ejecting the biblical phrase "In the beginning was the word..." The number 36 in the title refers to Furnival's 36th birthday -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

40 + Product of Holland, 1968

 Item — Folder 30: [Barcode: 31858072459898]
Identifier: CC-32452-34026
Scope and Contents

The poem with gold colored, repetitive words is printed in the shape of a tondo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

41P, 1999

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-37596-39453
Scope and Contents

This print is housed in a brown paper portfolio with "House Press" and its logo silkscreened onto it along four other prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

54-64 For Link, 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-61936-58833

1982 Janine, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-31799-33317
Scope and Contents

This is Gray's second novel. The story deals with the life of an alcholic, Scottish electrician who fantasizes about sexual bondage scenes and akin those in "The Story of O." The protagonists relations with his mistress, wife and family as well as his friends constitutes the major portion of the book. Gray's Epilogue reveals sources for the story structures in the various chapters. The book includes several pages with highly experimental concrete poetic layouts. This American edition of the book is larger in size than its British edition, also held by the Sackner Archive. ln addition, this increase size is reflected in the image and typeface of the dust jacket. The dust jacket, that was designed by Gray, summarizes the content of the novel on its left side and depicts a self-portrait by Gray in the form of a line drawing on its right side. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

1982 Janine, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-31827-33345
Scope and Contents

This is Gray's second novel. The story deals with the life of an alcholic, Scottish electrician who fantasizes about sexual bondage scenes and akin those in "The Story of O." The protagonists relations with his mistress, wife and family as well as his friends constitutes the major portion of the book. Gray's Epilogue reveals sources for the story structures in the various chapters.The book includes several pages with highly experimental concrete poetic layouts. This British edition of the book is smaller in size than its American counterpart, also held by the Sackner Archive. ln addition, this decreased size is reflected in the image and typeface sizes comprising the dust jacket. The dust jacket, that was designed by Gray, depicts inverted 'Y's' in a grid on its left side and upright 'Y's' on its right side. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

1988 New Years Greetings / Cobbing, Bob., 1987

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-19035-19414
Scope and Contents

Handwritten message to Marvin Sackner concerning his account balance and Cobbing's new record "Aberration." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. "Xmas Day 1987" -- Source of annotation: CGC

Dates: 1987

A Cappella, 1973

 Item — Box 317: [Barcode: 31858072490844]
Identifier: CC-31993-33521
Scope and Contents

This is Andrews third book. The poems are composed with clusters of single and fragmented words whose content anticipates Andrews' more developed language poetry style. An introductory manifesto describes this new poetry. The cover design incorporates typed concrete poetry on th back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

a fleeting. a reading., 1999

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-37600-39457
Scope and Contents

This print is housed in a brown paper portfolio with "House Press" and its logo silkscreened onto it along four other prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

A Gala Exhibition / Cobbing, Bob; Houedard DS; Cox K; Wright E; Verey C; Furnival J; Finlay IH; Morgan E; Gerz J; Chopin H; Garnier P; Gette PA; Logue C; Lucie-Smith E., 1969

 Item — Box 393: [Barcode: 31858072461571]
Identifier: CC-19507-19890
Scope and Contents

Cobbing mentions that nearly a thousand items were included in this exhibition that took place over one month's period which thirty thousand people attended un London's Royal Festival Hall.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

A Little Things Poem Almost for Linda My Love, 1985

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55022-998879

A Lost World, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51990-73092
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. Although the pages are photocopied, the composition was made with a combination of ink jet printing and rubberstamping. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

A Model of Order: Selected Letters on Poetry and Making , 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-51614-72713
Scope and Contents Amazon.com "It doesn't greatly matter to me whether I'm using plants or trees or stones or words or events," the artist, poet and gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) once told an interviewer; "the impulse is always to make a coherent order out of things." Through a carefully edited selection from a voluminous correspondence, A Model of Order tracks the unique arc of Finlay's development, from poet writing in Scots dialect, to Concrete poet, toymaker and deviser of poems and inscriptions in glass, wood and stone, installed in parks and gardens. The title derives from Finlay's famous definition of Concrete poetry as "a model of order, even if set in a space which is full of doubt," a definition conceived in correspondence with poet Pierre Garnier. Poet and editor Thomas A. Clark's selection of Finlay's letters-to Louis Zukofsky, Robert Creeley and Ernst Jandl among others-explicates a rigorous and moral vision of the act of making." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth...
Dates: 2009

A Movie Book 2nd edition / Cobbing, Bob., 1978

 Item — Box 387: [Barcode: 31858072461522]
Identifier: CC-17508-17874
Scope and Contents

This is the 2nd edition of a book first published in 1971. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

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

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
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