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Concrete poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 610 Collections and/or Records:

(Th) Gossamer Bed Pan, Revised, 1974

 Item — Box 619: [Barcode: 31858072461043]
Identifier: CC-32769-34361
Scope and Contents

This first edition differs from the later, revised edition in its covers, fold-outs, and the presence of an offset page. There are more rubberstamped texts and less typewriter poetry in the first edition than the revised edition. The revised edition also has pages printed in red ink whereas the first edition does not. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

THALAMUS & SOL (071264), 1964

 Item — Box 643
Identifier: CC-56381-9999796
Scope and Contents

This depicts a square of composed of two words in capital letters THALAMUS & SOL. Houedard has composed several poems using the neurologic structure, Thalamus, as their basis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Thanks, 2000

 Item — Box 134: [Barcode: 31858072457850]
Identifier: CC-44487-46637
Scope and Contents

The word THANKS is incised on the top surface of the orange paper weight. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Books Lost to the Fire in the Library of Alexandria Revealed Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37358-39211
Scope and Contents

In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 19. The shape of the poem appears to be a Greek temple with columns. The titles of the books listed in the poem are made-up raunch phrases, several well known in old and ancient jokes, e.g, "The Yellow River by I.P. Daily; The Aged Car by Denton Fender; The Random Jockstrap by Wun Hung Lo etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Cement Fuck, 1966

 Item — Box 543: [Barcode: 31858072461068]
Identifier: CC-07335-7479
Scope and Contents

The abstract expressionist cover was painted by maRa. A handwritten poem by levy appears on the back cover. This book contains all the stanzas of Chalchihuitlicue; the booklet of the same title (held by the Sackner Archive) only contains the first stanza. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

The Club Ha Ha Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37353-39205
Scope and Contents In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on pages 109 and 110. The shape is that of a deer with antlers perched upon an intricate goblet that might have been made adapted from Beatrice Ward's "The Crystal Goblet." Daniels describes his poems prints in a personal communication to Marvin Sackner as follows: "Its kind of like walking up to a painting and examining the brushstrokes. The fonts in giant form are"new" and "strange" in a way. Also they make a design of their own. Plus I raise and lower fonts to make curves. People see them as if they never saw them before. Good old Times Roman invented by the Romans to incise sharp shadows for readability on their stone cut signs and developed by The London Times in the 19th Century to acheive clarity while cramming words tight in columns has a new life! Some young people I met at Epoetry 2001 in Buffalo this Spring seem to see me as a kind of "hero" who has "figured out how to get people to read his poems hiding...
Dates: 2001

the ear's pavilion, 1956

 Item — Box 638: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-15853-16185
Scope and Contents

This is the same poem in red ink but pubished b&w in Williams' 'Anthology of Concrete Poetry' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1956

The Fitzroy Poems, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-04672-4759
Scope and Contents

The poems for the most part are written in the Creole dialect of the Fitzroy region of Australia. Pi O's Christian name is Peter Oustabasides. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

The Fool Still Looking at the Same Thing [2], 1988

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-53023-74167
Scope and Contents

This version of the poem has slight differences from the first version, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

The Forest and the Revolution, 1981

 Item — Box 640: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Scope and Contents

Flyer advertising a series of exhibitions entitled "The Forest and the Revolution" held from May-October 1981 in Stonypath Garden and the Garden Temple in Finlay's Little Sparta in Lanarck, Scotland. Exhibitions included "Souvenirs of the French Revolution", "Nine Columns", "Names on Trees", "Talismans and Signifiers", "Classic Landscapes", "Pantheon of the Revolution", "Zeno and Epicurus", "Raspberry Camouflage", and "Spartan and Old Roman Promenades", as well as other publications and plantings.

Dates: 1981

The Light Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37364-39217
Scope and Contents

In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on sequential pages 167-171. The shape of the poem consists of five poems with abstract shapes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

[the longago & yetocome] (170963) / [poeme traduction] / POEME BLANC (140663), 1963

 Item — Box 643
Identifier: CC-57862-10001113
Scope and Contents

This page contains the three concrete poems in the title. The third poem is an" homage a leopold sedar senghor." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

The Multi-Wing Multi-Being Multi-Sing Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37361-39214
Scope and Contents

In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 43. The shape of the poem is a dragonfly viewed from above and this mentioned in the concluding phrase, "Stars shine bright on shatter light fate twitch wings finning out inner atmosphere character. Thee.The. That's go with the flow of the delicate Herakleition transparent inner stratasphere dragonfly light wings, folks." The dragonfly's body consists of rhyming nonsense words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The North American Book of the Dead, 1966

 Item — Box 543: [Barcode: 31858072461068]
Identifier: CC-07240-7383
Scope and Contents

The theme of this poem deals with Zen and an afterlife place whose description was inspired by the Tibetan book of the Dead. The poem has five parts; the first two which were published in 1965 have been extensively revised and three parts added. The latter are bound upside down. Three drawings are reproduced in the book. The cover, a watercolor by levy, has a darker, more developed structure than the other copy of this book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

The Ornamental Blessing, 1994

 Item — Box 272: [Barcode: 31858072460938]
Identifier: CC-34711-36415
Scope and Contents

The poem is set in short phrases on the vertical axis of tightly, rolled scroll with occasional diagonally printed phrases of concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

The Paean to Various New, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37354-39206
Scope and Contents

In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 8. The shape is that of the lower half of a New York man's body peeing on the sidewalk. The last word of the title together with the urinary stream documents this shape, "New Yorkers Pissing on the Sidewalk." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Para-Concrete Manifesto / Letter from Cavan McCarthy to George (Dowden?), re: payment: Thanks for your cash, 1966

 Item — Box 543: [Barcode: 31858072461068]
Identifier: CC-55588-55330
Scope and Contents

The da levy poem is also on the back cover of Tlaloc 13, a periodical also held by the Sackner Archive. This letter is stored in a da levy binder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

The Petit Eternal Return Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37355-39208
Scope and Contents

In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 11. The shape is a mandala that surrounds a triangle (from the words in the poem, this signifies a pubic triangle). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001