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Concrete poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 610 Collections and/or Records:

silenziovoce (silence voice), 1967

 Item — Box 309: [Barcode: 31858073143632]
Identifier: CC-52481-73608
Scope and Contents

This is also designated No.4 of the series "fonemi plastici 1967." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Simplex 17, 2006

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-47312-50055
Scope and Contents

These prints by the 17 contributors were photocopied from the collages made from the same letraset fonts distributed to them by Bealieu. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

singsingsing, 2011

 Item — Box 135: [Barcode: 31858072457835]
Identifier: CC-53210-74362
Scope and Contents

The small hand lettering on this collag reads 's i n g' from different angles. When held up to the light a second layer of writing can be seen. The top border is hand cut. The cancelled, red bordered stamps on the poem object commemorate the work of several product designers and are part of the conceptual work of sloy and nic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

sinose [si-no-se: yes-no-if], 1967

 Item — Box 288: [Barcode: 31858073143434]
Identifier: CC-52482-73609
Scope and Contents

This is also designated No.3 of the series "fonemi plastici 1967." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Six Sound Poems 2nd Edition / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-17449-17814
Scope and Contents

Designated folder number four. Works are new versions of "Tan Tandinane," "Wan Do Tree," "Alphabet of Fishes," "M," and "Oslo Solo." This is the second edition of this anthology first published in 1968. Cobbing notes the following: Why publish sound poems in visual form - because the pattern of sound which is the sound poem often makes an interesting pattern on the page...the poem exists in many forms aural and visual...becomes perhaps many different poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Six Sound Poems 3rd edition / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-31393-32880
Scope and Contents

Designated folder number four. Works are new versions of "Tan Tandinane," "Wan Do Tree," "Alphabet of Fishes," "M," and "Oslo Solo." This is the third edition of this anthology first published in 1968. Cobbing notes the following: Why publish sound poems in visual form - because the pattern of sound which is the sound poem often makes an interesting pattern on the page...the poem exists in many forms aural and visual...becomes perhaps many different poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Six Sound Poems 4th Edition / Cobbing, Bob., 1972

 Item — Box 391: [Barcode: 31858072461555]
Identifier: CC-17482-17848
Scope and Contents

Designated folder number four. This fourth edition contains new versions of the following poems: Tan Tandinane, Wan Do Tree, Alphabet of Fishes, 'M. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Slack Stack, 1977

 Item — Box 634: [Barcode: 31858072491313]
Identifier: CC-17726-18095
Scope and Contents

Designated Chapbooks No.12. The author is also known as Jennifer Pike. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Slovovyd, 1999

 Item — Box 616: [Barcode: 31858072461019]
Identifier: CC-34018-35694
Scope and Contents

There is an explanation and translation of the concrete poems in English at the back of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Some Myths of Concrete Poetry / Cobbing, Bob; Mayer, Peter; Chopin H; Bann S; Finlay IH; Mills S; Belloli C; Finch P; Gomringer E; Wright E; Fahlstrom O; Themerson S; Jandl E; Morgan E; Furnival J., 1972

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-17728-18097
Scope and Contents

Reprinted from Stereo Headphones No.5, 1972. The authors debunk the assertion of Stuart Mills who in Akros No.18, 1972 stated that the poem-poster was introduced by Ian-Hamilton Finlay. They go on to further describe the pioneers of Concrete Poetry in their opinion. Rebuttals to their conclusions by Stephan Bann and Henri Chopin are also published. Mentions that Ernest Fenellosa, who died in 1908, used the term 'concrete poetry' in an essay, 'The Chinese Character as a Medium for Poetry' in 1901. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Songs All over the Place / Cobbing, Bob, editor., July 1986

 Item — Box 395: [Barcode: 31858072461597]
Identifier: CC-17535-17901
Scope and Contents

These poems were written by students at Epping Forest High School, Loughton, Essex, when Bob Cobbing was the visiting poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: July 1986

Songsignals, 1971

 Item — Box 633: [Barcode: 31858072464732]
Identifier: CC-17539-17905
Scope and Contents

Edited by Peter Finch. This is issue No.1 of Second Aeon Folder series; the second and final number, J.P. Wards's "From Alphabet to Logos," is also held by the Sackner Archive. In the introduction, Cobbing describes how he altered the found poems in this work to their final form. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Sonnets in Concrete: Volume One / Brilliantes, Jos C.., 1968

 Item — Box 359: [Barcode: 31858072461266]
Identifier: CC-23354-23796
Scope and Contents

Brilliantes used typewriter characters to create distinctive shapes from the characters alone, viz. cats, dogs, lions, tigers, giraffes, bedbugs, girls with hula hoops, farmers, toothbrushes, scissors, pans etc. His images are quite unique in typewriter art and poetry and there are no other examples like his in the Sackner Archive. This book is stored in the same portfolio box as Bridgwater's "Typograms." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Source Unknown, 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33897-35569
Scope and Contents

The book is an expansion of a print (Four People) that depicts a story akin to "it didn't happen on my shift!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999