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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

RIP / Sharkey, John J.., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-57171-10000498
Scope and Contents

The page contains the word RIP typed at the top and bottom of the page. The poem indicates that thist is in tribute to Kennedy's death in Dallas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

schoenberg [1] / Sharkey, John J.., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-57174-10000501
Scope and Contents

The typed 10 lines of the name Schoenberg begin with lowercase letters and then adding one capital letter on each line until the final row is all capital letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

schoenberg [2] / Sharkey, John J.., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-57176-10000502
Scope and Contents

The typed 10 lines of the name Schoenberg begin with lower case letters and then adding one capital letter on each line until the final row is all capital letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

[The Tower][CR][The Tower] / Sharkey, John J.., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-57218-10000547
Scope and Contents

The poem is in the shape of a tower with the base containing the following: "being an illlumination in graphic poems of some of the basic wordy structures of civilisation" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

WORDS 1 / Sharkey, John J.., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-57175-10000495
Scope and Contents

The bottom typed edge states "Is this word a symbol for words or for the word words? What is the word words?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

WORDS 2 / Sharkey, John J.., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-57168-10000496
Scope and Contents

The page contains WORDS typed in a cross. The bottom typed edge states "The difference between words and the word words is the sound of language." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

WORDS 3 / Sharkey, John J.., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-57169-10000497
Scope and Contents

The page contains WORDS typed randomly and fragmented across the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969