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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1131 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

Balam Malab, 2010

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Be-Bir: [Barcode: 31858072491172]
Identifier: CC-51573-72672
Scope and Contents

This folded broadside was printed by Tyson Sutherland on a Vandercook Universal I letterpress at The Ohio State University Libraries' Book Arts Laboratory in April 2010. Text and design by John M. Bennett. The letterforms are assorted wood types; the paper is Arches Cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Basil Bunting - Poem for Two Voices / Cobbing, Bob., 1974

 Item — Box 394: [Barcode: 31858072461589]
Identifier: CC-17672-18040
Scope and Contents

All the words in this poem begin with the letter "b." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

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

Beethoven Today / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-17468-17834
Scope and Contents

Cobbing created repeticious text variations on the title "Beethoven Today" by forming poems in either a circular or quadrangular arrangement. The pages have yellow and orange color -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Beethoven Today / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-19973-20361
Scope and Contents

Cobbing created tautologic variations on the title "Beethoven Today" by forming poems in either a circular or quadrangular arrangement. Al the pages are printed on white paper stock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

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