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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 883 Collections and/or Records:

At Sunrise, 1968

 Item — Box 312: [Barcode: 31858072490828]
Identifier: CC-37577-39434
Scope and Contents

This poem was composed with the same layout as the one with the same title but with "Chinese-like lettering" in conventional hand printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

At Sunrise (Chinese-like lettering), 1968

 Item — Folder 51: [Barcode: 31858072537842]
Identifier: CC-37572-39429
Scope and Contents

In a personal communication to the Sackners, Adler commented that this poem-drawing was an attempt at a new visual alphabet equivalent to Chinese lettering. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Au Pair Girl 1, 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-56273-9999711
Scope and Contents

The photograph appears to be a distorted image of the repeticious title placed on a loose fabric. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Au Pair Girl 2, 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-56274-9999712
Scope and Contents

The photograph appears to be a distorted image of the repeticious title placed on a loose fabric. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

awake in th red desert !!, 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-30440-31861
Scope and Contents

Some of these books contained a 33 1/3 rpm record; this copy did not. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Axiom of a Torn Pulley, 1995

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-31578-33075
Scope and Contents

Of 42 copies published, 30 were distributed to the friends of author and publisher; only 12 were sold to the public. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

bedepequ, 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-14661-14974
Scope and Contents

Each page is a print depicting geometric arrangements of the letters listed in the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Before After Birth Death, 1988

 Item — Box 58: [Barcode: 31858072538576]
Identifier: CC-10330-10533
Scope and Contents

Four wooden, pie-shaped panels painted BEFORE AFTER in black are hinged to the circular wood base painted DEATH BIRTH in red. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Beyond the Range of Standard Selected Works, 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-07679-7829
Scope and Contents

Also designated two-bitter #56. Comprises an anthology dealing with poetic works written by lefler from 1974-1994. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Bfp(h)age - An Anthology of Visual Poetry and Collage, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-23009-23446
Scope and Contents

This book includes a reproduction detail of a Daniel f. Bradley rubberstamped drawing on sleep; the original is held by the Sackner Archive. The Sackner Archive also holds the original typing by Basmajian entitled "After Weeks and Weeks in the Intensive Care Unit" that is reproduced in this book. The total run of this book is probably 300 copies (signing not called for). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Big Numbers , 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-53084-74230
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a wide range of Pie O's poems that often are spinkled with an Australian dialect. The pages from his visit to America on a Guggenheim fellowship deals with his political views as an anarchist. He dedicated this book to Thalia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Bilderspiegel, 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-49055-70093
Scope and Contents

In this book which is also designated as Tangenten No.4, a small square of mirror is set in stamped out thin card pages. One glassine page overlays it with a printed magic square poem. Parts of the backing of the mirror have been scatched out by the artist and it has been glued down to the card. Poetry has been printed on the pages with the stamped out sections. This book was edited by Walter Aue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Bill Jubobe, 1977

 Item — Folder 23: [Barcode: 31858072459823]
Identifier: CC-18756-19130
Scope and Contents

This work was made for a performance in Saarbrucken, West Germany, January 1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977