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Concrete poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1039 Collections and/or Records:

[cosmic typewriter]: from texts for the somantric diversion, 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55544-9999175

Counter-Blast, 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-06778-6897
Scope and Contents

This book designed by Harley Parker is a contemporaneous parody of Wyndham Lewis' Vorticist magazine Blast. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Counter-Blast, 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-06791-6910
Scope and Contents

This is a parody of Wyndham Lewis' magazine "Blast," with its contents dealing with communication and the Information Age. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Covent Garden Broadsheet: Beethoven Today. No.1, 1971

 Item — Folder 23: [Barcode: 31858072459823]
Identifier: CC-18728-19102
Scope and Contents

Designated Broadsheet No.1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Cried and Measured, 1977

 Item — Box 622: [Barcode: 31858072461092]
Identifier: CC-38316-40213
Scope and Contents

The poems are based on lists of names in the Aramaic writings of the Jews of Elephantine, Egypt. There is also an essay about the Elephantine Jews, an island in the Nile river at Egypt's southern border who lived in that place in the fifth century B.C. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Cunt Cup, 2000

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55127-1289

d.a. levy's " destructive writing" and the Instant of Communication, 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-29886-31273
Scope and Contents

Swanberg (aka Markhardt) analyzes levy's poem, "Selected Writings" of 1967, "in which no images appear and in which the words and lines bleed with a superabundance of black mimeo ink ringed by a faint aura of oil...The poem's destructive writing is a putting to death of words. Its realm is without mastery, without time. It is the instant of a complete spending, in which words are sacrificed and the poem IS." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

d.a.levy's Poems and Collages Cleveland and Madison 1962-8, 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-23370-23812
Scope and Contents

Includes the same collages reproduced in b & w in Quixote Vol.4 No.6. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

dans 1' ame de 1' omega, 1960

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-15852-16184

Das Stundenbuch; The Book of Hours; Le Livre D'Heures; El Libro De Las Horas; Timbok, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-36329-38119
Scope and Contents

This book was first published in German in 1965. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

dbqp, No. 225: water vapour [blue], 2005

 Item — Box 304: [Barcode: 31858072460946]
Identifier: CC-46457-49186
Scope and Contents

This copy is printed on light blue papercard stock. One of the poems "waTer vaPour" in this set was commented upon by Bob Grumman in his book "From Haiku to Lyriku" (2007). "Anyway, here's a clue: think lower case uppered. Remember gas expands." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

dbqp, No. 225: water vapour [white], 2005

 Item — Box 304: [Barcode: 31858072460946]
Identifier: CC-46455-49184
Scope and Contents

This copy is printed on white papercard stock. One of the poems "waTer vaPour" in this set was commented upon by Bob Grumman in his book "From Haiku to Lyriku" (2007). "Anyway, here's a clue: think lower case uppered. Remember gas expands." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

(Definitely) Random Sightings, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34180-35865
Scope and Contents

This book includes a reprint of "the cement fuck,"some previously unpublished prints, painting and postcards. The cover photograph was taken by alan horvath. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

DEI GENITRIX (060963), 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57860-10001110
Scope and Contents

A long column on the right side of the page consists of varied shades of m's with three balnk spaces in the column. The title is typed in the bottom left corner of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963