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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1131 Collections and/or Records:

Messages from a Typewriter, 1980

 Item — Box 621: [Barcode: 31858072461084]
Identifier: CC-58129-10001380
Scope and Contents

The selections of this book are classified according to the following topics: Bus and Beasts, Levitation Practice, the "a" s, Words & Allusions, Landscapes, Bananas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Metal Farm, The: Horizon. No.7, 1991

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-58015-10001271
Scope and Contents

Edited by Daniel f. Bradley. One of the poems was first published as one cent No.281 1991. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Miami Beach More Than a Million Poems, 1986

 Item — Box 83: [Barcode: 31858072538287]
Identifier: CC-04626-4713
Scope and Contents

This sculpture contains forty words hand printed in ink on the sides of ten wooden square blocks. Each block, that can rotate on a wooden dowel through hand movement, measures 11.4 x 11.4 x 2 cm. The words selected by Phillips for each block are: Modernism, Miami Beach, Moonlight, Memory - Inspires, Indulges, Identities, Ignores - Ambiguous, Amorous, Artistic, Abstract - Madness, Mythology, Miracles, Moments - Idiotically, Inwardly, Ineptly, Intensely - Brainless, Backward, Bohemian, Beautiful - Egoists, Emotions, Erections, Eccentrics - Always, Artfully, Already, Absurdly - Confuse, Clarify, Complete, Celebrate - History, Heartache, Happiness, Hysteria. The first letter of each block vertically spells Miami Beach.Illustrated in "Works and Text 1992 " on page 110. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Miniature Obscure, No. 2: Substitute, 1993

 Item — Box 125: [Barcode: 31858072458239]
Identifier: CC-06422-6540
Scope and Contents

The round cardboard case measuring 6.7" in diameter is made from handmade pulp such that bits of fragmented texts appear on its surface. Its lid is perforated in the center. The names of the contributors are printed on two concertinas made from red paper. One of the works has a background of the same word repetively printed in tight grid with two large empty letters, e.g., ER, superimposed = Ersatz (substitute). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Mirror Text, 1976 December

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
Identifier: CC-17699-18068
Scope and Contents

Designated Card Series No.19. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976 December

Mitmedien, 1975

 Item — Box 614: [Barcode: 31858072461001]
Identifier: CC-37637-39497
Scope and Contents

The microfiches depict Kriwet's work from 1960-1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Mito/Meta , 1980

 Item — Folder 66: [Barcode: 31858072538006]
Identifier: CC-20890-21299
Scope and Contents

Originally appeared in C. Belloli's "Ravoli Visuali," Edizioni della Rivista Gala, Rome, 1948. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Mixtures , 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-44388-46537
Scope and Contents

This book depicts representative examples of Calleja's poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993