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Concrete poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1054 Collections and/or Records:

Proletarian, 1969

 Item — Folder 30: [Barcode: 31858072459898]
Identifier: CC-15695-16024
Scope and Contents

The letters formed at the top of the repetitious text by utilization of negative space spell BRIER. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Proof Copy: Bob Cobbing and Writers Forum , 1974

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
Identifier: CC-17679-18047
Scope and Contents

This manuscript documents the exhibition of Bob Cobbing & Writers Forum at Sunderland Arts Centre, published as Ceolfrith No.3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Proofs , 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-17975-18345
Scope and Contents

The pages are "saturated" with proofs of "discarded titles, rejected illustrations, botched typographics" from an abandoned book, "Sic Transport." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

prosa, konstellationen, montagen dialektgedichte studien, 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-24328-24780
Scope and Contents

This book includes two works of Achleitner, "o- i-studie"(1960) & "schwer schwerz" (1960), the manuscripts of which are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Publit, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-07851-8004
Scope and Contents

Ferdinand Kriwet contributed an introductory essay, "Decomposition of the Literary Unit: Notes on Visually Perceptible Literature" that traced the historical antecedents of concrete and poetry. This is followed by an illustrated section on his own linguistic and compositional techniques involving circular concrete poems, "Rundsheiben." "Walk Talk," a vinyl, floor covering, a portion of which was given to the Sackners by Kriwet is depicted in the book.Kriwet defines his term "Sehtext" as a solution to the problem of visually perceptible literature. It is the tension between the physical act of seeing and the intellectual one of reading. Seeing is a process of perception; reading is the reaction to it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Publit - poem-paintings - in coram publico, 1966

 Item — Box 614: [Barcode: 31858072461001]
Identifier: CC-37520-39377
Scope and Contents

The text is an exposition of Kriwet's paintings that he designates Publit aka public literature. He notes that he considers himself a writer who paints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Publit - poem-paintings - in coram publico, 1966

 Item — Box 614: [Barcode: 31858072461001]
Identifier: CC-48045-69068
Scope and Contents

The text is an exposition of Kriwet's paintings that he designates Publit aka public literature. He notes that he considers himself a writer who paints. The inscription on the cover is written and signed by Franz Mon (?). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

pulling stain, 1999

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-37598-39455
Scope and Contents

This print is housed in a brown paper portfolio with "House Press" and its logo silkscreened onto it along four other prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

quadratroman, 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-27212-27689
Scope and Contents

This book was reprinted in 1995 in Salzberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

R, 1999

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-37597-39454
Scope and Contents

This print is housed in a brown paper portfolio with "House Press" and its logo silkscreened onto it along four other prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

rag & boneshop, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-44066-46182
Scope and Contents

This is an outstanding compilation of Birney's concrete and visual poems. Several poems are written in the linguistic style used by bill bissett. According to Adjala Bookshop, Birney inscribed (dated 1970) this first edition of the book to Mary Lou Toms who was the founding editor of "Books in Canada." The inscription is in the form of a concrete poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

rag & boneshop, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-21114-21523
Scope and Contents

This is an outstanding compilation of Birney's concrete and visual poems. Several poems are written in the linguistic style used by bill bissett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Random Sightings [Reprint], 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33510-35159
Scope and Contents

Several poems are word portraits of artists that include Francis Bacon, William Baziotes, James Ensor, Paul Gauguin, Turner, and Robert Motherwell. The book also includes reprints of levy's introductory essay to 306, 5 Cleveland Poems, you murders with your indifference, and the "IN" Group. The cover was designed by Alan Horvath, the publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Random Sightings (The Egyptian Stroboscope Sessions), 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-52257-73379
Scope and Contents

Most of the copies of the first printing in an edition of 108 copies were confiscated by the Cleveland Police in the notorious raid of Jim Lowell's book store in 1966. The second printing by grass coin publishing in 1967 had a different cover, a modified title page & did not contain an index section. This third posthumous printing presented here is a reproduction of the original, the unique page from the second edition as well as the original manuscript pages. The cover silkscreen of this third printing was done by Mike Schaefer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

RE: Concrete Poetry in the UK [Marvin Sackner email correspondence to Gregory Charles Thomas], November 2012 - April 2013

 Item — Box 396: [Barcode: 31858072461605]
Scope and Contents

Contains emails between Marvin Sackner and Gregory Charles Thomas, primarily about artists Bob Cobbing and Dom Sylvester Houedard

Dates: November 2012 - April 2013