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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 896 Collections and/or Records:

The Watts Tower Poems, 1972

 Item — Box 609: [Barcode: 31858073143566]
Identifier: CC-02524-2566
Scope and Contents

This poem commemorating Simon Rodia's architectural Watts Towers in Los Angeles was reproduced from Creative Word 1 in the Random House English Series, an educational tool for the schools. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Theravada: sun / moon / Burgess, Molly., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-57188-10000514
Scope and Contents

Mahayana typewritings are stored in a custom wooden box made by Molly Burgess whereas Theravada typewritings are stored between two plexiglas book covers. The limited edition book, 'Still,' of 25 copies depcits excellent reproductions of the originals to the extent that it is difficult to distinguish the original from the letterpress reproductions. However, the originals are typed on a single page whereas the reproductions in the book are printed on sleeve pages. A comparison between the blackness of the lettering generally showed more blackness with the originals than the reproductions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Thirty Concrete & Sound Poems to Celebrate 50 Years as a Poet / Cobbing, Bob ; Birdyak ; Pike J ; Metcalf P., 1992

 Item — Folder 52: [Barcode: 31858072537867]
Identifier: CC-20349-20746
Scope and Contents

This suite of prints includes among others gon no nude, N Ndue, wan do tree, U CD FEG!, BESA, LN, Make perhaps this out sense of can you, iji, sovkless in sandals, DA-DA-DOO!, ata matumma, 'm, and love. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

To Be Me To Be You, 1971

 Item — Folder 20: [Barcode: 31858072459799]
Identifier: CC-19801-20188
Scope and Contents

This is a signed, unfolded, poster collaborative work by the artists that was published in Review OU No.38-39, 1971. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Totem, 1965

 Item — Box 53: [Barcode: 31858072538642]
Identifier: CC-10596-10802
Scope and Contents

The sculpture that was assembled from different dimensional, wooden typeface forms is stylistically typical of works done by Gette in this period. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Toutes les Pommes se Croquent: Divertissement Typoetique en Cinq Actes, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-29116-30461
Scope and Contents

Peignot provides examples of picture poems using concrete poems as the image with captions underneath, one to a page. The concrete poems are composed by varying letter spacing, alterating boldness of the typeface, mixing typefaces, repeating letters, printing anagrams, presenting different arrangement of letters, mirror imaging, and adding punctuation marks. The poems relate to Peignot's other book, Le Petit Peignot, published the same year as this book. Both books are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Transparente Zeit(ung), 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-27729-28839
Scope and Contents

Daniel drew outlines of Hebrew letters in black ink randomly on transparent paper placed over a page of printed Hebrew text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Tribute to 'Vladimir Komarov' Cosmonaut, 1969

 Item — Box 608: [Barcode: 31858073143558]
Identifier: CC-14136-14441
Scope and Contents

The poem consists of the lower case and handwritten letters in red and black of the word moon streaming out up-side-down as if they were streams of smoke from a rocket. The work is dedicated to the first Russian cosmonaut who died in space. Original typewriter poems by Edmonds have not been readily available. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969