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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1131 Collections and/or Records:

Accidental Nature, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-02744-2787
Scope and Contents

Depicts Sutherland's rendition of an avalanche. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Acrobats, 1968

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-12463-12690
Scope and Contents

Depicts a reproduction of Finlay's silkscreen poster/poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Admissible Evidence (Random Sightings), 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-44269-46399
Scope and Contents

The book includes conventional poems, some with minor typographic enhancements. The CD consists of readings by levy and Taylor remastered from audiotape (1967). The cover was designed by alan horvath. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

After Weeks and Weeks in the Intensive Care Unit (A Gasp), 1988

 Item — Oversize folder 45: [Barcode: 31858068937618]
Identifier: CC-23174-23612
Scope and Contents

The poem deals with the poet's experience in the Intensive Care Unit after being stabbed in the chest that punctured his lung in 1986 by a robber while he was driving a taxi cab. All four typings in this series dealing with the Intensive Care Unit experience have been framed together. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

After Weeks and Weeks in the Intensive Care Unit (A Gasp of Fresh Air), 1988

 Item — Oversize folder 45: [Barcode: 31858068937618]
Identifier: CC-23173-23611
Scope and Contents

The poem deals with the poet's experience in the Intensive Care Unit after being stabbed in the chest that punctured his lung in 1986 by a robber while he was driving a taxi cab. All four typings in this series dealing with the Intensive Care Unit experience have been framed together. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

After Weeks and Weeks in the Intensive Care Unit: Sunybrook Hospital '88 (A Gasp of Fresh Air), 1988

 Item — Oversize folder 45: [Barcode: 31858068937618]
Identifier: CC-23175-23613
Scope and Contents

The poem deals with the poet's experience in the Intensive Care Unit after being stabbed in the chest that punctured his lung in 1986 by a robber while he was driving a taxi cab. All four typings in this series dealing with the Intensive Care Unit experience have been framed together. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

After Weeks and Weeks in the Intensive Care Unit: Sunybrook Hospital (A Gasp A Gasp), 1988

 Item — Oversize folder 45: [Barcode: 31858068937618]
Identifier: CC-23176-23614
Scope and Contents

The poem deals with the poet's experience in the Intensive Care Unit after being stabbed in the chest that punctured his lung in 1986 by a robber while he was driving a taxi cab. All four typings in this series dealing with the Intensive Care Unit experience have been framed together. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

[AG] , 2010

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-53272-74426
Scope and Contents

This print was made from a letraset collage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

[AG - Small Version], 2010

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-53273-74427
Scope and Contents

This print was made from a letraset collage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

alfabeti , 1975

 Item — Folder 73: [Barcode: 31858072538089]
Identifier: CC-37744-39621
Scope and Contents

There is an unsigned version of this print with smaller borders listed as an issue of Mercado Del Sale, September 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Alles oder Nichts (Double or Nothing), 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-11498-11714
Scope and Contents

This is the German translation of "Double or Nothing." The folded loose sheet depicts colored alphabet pasta. The text is typeset rather than photocopied from a typed manuscript as it is in the original American publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Alphabet Music , 1972

 Item — Folder 51: [Barcode: 31858072537842]
Identifier: CC-24357-24809
Scope and Contents

Bill Griffiths silkscreened the prints.The loose sheet provides directions for reading the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

[Alphabetical Poem], 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-33359-34998
Scope and Contents

The drawing consists of stencilled letters of the alphabet that are randomly arranged. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Alphabets, 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-28646-29946
Scope and Contents

This is a book of poems out of the Oulipou school of poetry that based their writings on mathematical formulae. Each poem, presented in a conventional way, one to a page, is reprinted without spaces, to form a grid of 11 letters to the line x 11 lines. Dado illustrated the book with neo-expressionistic human figures. A deluxe edition of this book released in also wappeared in 80 numbered copies plus 21 hors commerce copies accompanied by an original print by Dado (1933-2010). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985