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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1131 Collections and/or Records:

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

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
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 Peal in Air, 1968

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
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 for Apollinaire, 1968

 Item
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

 Item — Folder 23: [Barcode: 31858072459823]
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 Peal in Air [Variant] / Cobbing, Bob., 1990

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-17340-17704

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

 Item — Box 387: [Barcode: 31858072461522]
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 Preliminary Draft of the d.a. levy Collection, 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-26924-27397
Scope and Contents

This check list of works by d.a. levy and his circle was collected by David Wirshup, owner of Anacapa Books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

ABC poems, 1971

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

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz (Alphabet Poem), 1963

 Item — Box 298: [Barcode: 31858072460870]
Identifier: CC-48358-69384
Scope and Contents This poem was included in several Fluxus boxes. There is no reference to Emmett Williams as an author of the scroll. AbeBooks: Printed scroll of 3 conjoined sheets of buff-colored laid stock, rolled as issued. 2217 x 58 mm. (ca. 87 1/4 x 2 3/8 inches). A fine copy. "A Fluxus printing of "abcedfghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz,' also called "Alphabet Poem,' was usually included in "Fluxus 1" and "Fluxkit.' This work was first published by Verlag Kalender, the publishing house of Bernd Ebeling and Hansjoachim Dietrich, Wuppertal, West Germany, ca. 1961. They also published "Kalender Rolle,' a survey of avant-garde art in 1961 and again in 1962. Printed on a long scroll, their form influenced several Fluxus publications, such as "Fluxus Preview Review'" (Jon Hendricks, in Fluxus Codex). Williams' "An Opera' was issued in the same format, and distributed in the same way. Only the alphabet poem itself appears on the scroll; there is no credit to Williams, nor any publication information. -- Source...
Dates: 1963

Abrapalabra, 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-38751-40662
Scope and Contents

Omar Khouri contributes an introductory essay about De Araujo's poems. The web address of the Sackner Archive is listed under places with more of De Araujo's work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Absurdomudo, 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-30526-31954
Scope and Contents

This book reproduces de Araujo's concrete and visual poems, many of which have appeared in correspondence art exhibitions. One page is glued to another in this book and the following advice is rubberstamped on the covering page in English and Portuguese: Scrath/Violate /Unstick/Tear/Expose/Perforate/Injure/Cut/Detach/Etc, part of the paper(s) and make your own art/poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

acaso, 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-58395-10001611
Scope and Contents

This page was personally scnned under the direction of Augusto De Campos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963