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Concrete poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1039 Collections and/or Records:

After Weeks and Weeks in the Intensive Care Unit (A Gasp), 1988

 Item — Oversize folder 45: [Barcode: 31858068937618]
Identifier: CC-23174-23612
Scope and Contents

The poem deals with the poet's experience in the Intensive Care Unit after being stabbed in the chest that punctured his lung in 1986 by a robber while he was driving a taxi cab. All four typings in this series dealing with the Intensive Care Unit experience have been framed together. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

After Weeks and Weeks in the Intensive Care Unit (A Gasp of Fresh Air), 1988

 Item — Oversize folder 45: [Barcode: 31858068937618]
Identifier: CC-23173-23611
Scope and Contents

The poem deals with the poet's experience in the Intensive Care Unit after being stabbed in the chest that punctured his lung in 1986 by a robber while he was driving a taxi cab. All four typings in this series dealing with the Intensive Care Unit experience have been framed together. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

After Weeks and Weeks in the Intensive Care Unit: Sunybrook Hospital '88 (A Gasp of Fresh Air), 1988

 Item — Oversize folder 45: [Barcode: 31858068937618]
Identifier: CC-23175-23613
Scope and Contents

The poem deals with the poet's experience in the Intensive Care Unit after being stabbed in the chest that punctured his lung in 1986 by a robber while he was driving a taxi cab. All four typings in this series dealing with the Intensive Care Unit experience have been framed together. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

After Weeks and Weeks in the Intensive Care Unit: Sunybrook Hospital (A Gasp A Gasp), 1988

 Item — Oversize folder 45: [Barcode: 31858068937618]
Identifier: CC-23176-23614
Scope and Contents

The poem deals with the poet's experience in the Intensive Care Unit after being stabbed in the chest that punctured his lung in 1986 by a robber while he was driving a taxi cab. All four typings in this series dealing with the Intensive Care Unit experience have been framed together. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

[AG] , 2010

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-53272-74426
Scope and Contents

This print was made from a letraset collage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

[AG - Small Version], 2010

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-53273-74427
Scope and Contents

This print was made from a letraset collage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

alfabeti , 1975

 Item — Folder 73: [Barcode: 31858072538089]
Identifier: CC-37744-39621
Scope and Contents

There is an unsigned version of this print with smaller borders listed as an issue of Mercado Del Sale, September 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Alles oder Nichts (Double or Nothing), 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-11498-11714
Scope and Contents

This is the German translation of "Double or Nothing." The folded loose sheet depicts colored alphabet pasta. The text is typeset rather than photocopied from a typed manuscript as it is in the original American publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Alphabet Music , 1972

 Item — Folder 51: [Barcode: 31858072537842]
Identifier: CC-24357-24809
Scope and Contents

Bill Griffiths silkscreened the prints.The loose sheet provides directions for reading the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

[Alphabetical Poem], 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-33359-34998
Scope and Contents

The drawing consists of stencilled letters of the alphabet that are randomly arranged. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Alphabets, 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-28646-29946
Scope and Contents

This is a book of poems out of the Oulipou school of poetry that based their writings on mathematical formulae. Each poem, presented in a conventional way, one to a page, is reprinted without spaces, to form a grid of 11 letters to the line x 11 lines. Dado illustrated the book with neo-expressionistic human figures. A deluxe edition of this book released in also wappeared in 80 numbered copies plus 21 hors commerce copies accompanied by an original print by Dado (1933-2010). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Amarga chicha , 1985

 Item — Box 323: [Barcode: 31858072490893]
Identifier: CC-58748-10001984
Scope and Contents

Amage chicha is a bitter fermented corn drink in Latn America. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Amazonica N.3 (Mini-Conto), 1999

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-36525-38326
Scope and Contents

The theme of this poem deals with Brazil's rain forest. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

An Opera, 1963

 Item — Box 272: [Barcode: 31858072460938]
Identifier: CC-43838-45934
Scope and Contents

A note in Fluxus Codex indicates that this work was included in several Fluxus assemblage boxes and also sold separately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Ana 1 - 5 / Cobbing, Bob., 1972

 Item — Box 391: [Barcode: 31858072461555]
Identifier: CC-17516-17882
Scope and Contents

This book represents a performance copy of "Spearhead" (2nd & 3rd editions held by Sackner Archive) onto which is added written and typed notes. There are five performances of "Ana." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972