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Concrete poetry

 Subject

Staff Only

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1054 Collections and/or Records:

Vitriolum, 1988

 Item — Box 286: [Barcode: 31858072460672]
Identifier: CC-03785-3857
Scope and Contents

The title represents an acrostic of alchemy: Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificandoque Invenies Occultum Lapidem Veram Medicinam according to Persiani. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Voor'werk, 1990

 Item — Box 275: [Barcode: 31858073143384]
Identifier: CC-28573-29861
Scope and Contents

The inside of the box for this exhibition has four compartments, one for representation of each of the participating artists. Kay Rosen's are concrete poetic-like prints on stiff cardboard. Fiona Rae provides a thick, impasto, acrylic, abstract expressionist painting that is numbered 227/500. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

[Vowels] , 1975

 Item — Box 312: [Barcode: 31858072490828]
Identifier: CC-37573-39430
Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Vrh Kostek: ceska experimentali poezie, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-09775-9968
Scope and Contents

Consists of an anthology of the works by 12 Czechoslovakian concrete poets from the sixties and seventies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

W M Quinzieme Ou Pour En Finir Avec Le Presemeiotisme, 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-22153-22575
Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

Wahrebilder, 1994

 Item — Folder 7: [Barcode: 31858070812312]
Identifier: CC-23945-24393
Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Walls Must Crumble, 2000

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55117-98929
Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / Oversized Wally Depew

Wan/Grin (For Schools) / Cobbing, Bob., 1986

 Item — Box 394: [Barcode: 31858072461589]
Identifier: CC-17566-17932
Scope and Contents

One copy is printed on white paper and two copies on brown paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1980s / 1986

War Sand, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51988-73090
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / SMALL BOOKS

Wards of Obsolescence, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-28315-29493
Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

was an old woman lived in the buddhashoe (290663-060763), 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-08879-9055
Scope and Contents This page includes 11 typewriter poems including a oiem in five parts as an homage to Leopold Sedar Senghor. Wikipedia: Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 "“ 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal (1960"“1980). Senghor was the first African elected as a member of the Académie française. Before independence, he founded the political party called the Senegalese Democratic Bloc. He is regarded by many as one of the most important African intellectuals of the 20th century. He graduated from the University of Paris, where he received the Agrégation in French Grammar. Subsequently, he was designated professor at the universities of Tours and Paris, where he taught during the period 1935"“1945. Senghor decided to start his teaching years at the Lycée René-Descartes in Tours; he also taught at the Lycée Marcelin Berthelot in Saint-Maur-des-Fosses near Paris.[14] He also studied linguistics...
Dates: 1963
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

W.H. Davies Nailsworth Series: F is for Fiddles and G is for Garden... , 1997

 Item — Folder 60: [Barcode: 31858072537941]
Identifier: CC-28585-29874
Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

W.H. Davies Nailsworth Series: Q is for Question - U is for Union Uncertainty / Furnival, John., 1999

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-33742-35405
Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / John Furnival

W.H. Davies Nailsworth Series: Q is for Question - V is for Venus Violet and Oak Voices of Scorn / Furnival, John., 1999

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-33743-35406
Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / John Furnival

W.H. Davies Nailsworth Series: T Is for Time... / Furnival, John., 1996

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13338-13639
Scope and Contents

Consists of two columns of poetic expressions beginning with the letter T or the word T. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / John Furnival

what we have, 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-32856-34470
Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

What's So Big About Green?, 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-20934-21343
Scope and Contents

A concrete poem is printed on the wax paper page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Whisper Piece / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-59736-10002792
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum Folder 6. Two of the prints are stored in a binder containing typewriter poems. This copy does not have Cobbing's handwriting across the prints. Another copy held by the Sackner Archive does. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1960s / 1969

Whississippi / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-17603-17971
Scope and Contents

Designated writers forum pamphlet number two. "Whississippi" written in London and recorded in Stockholm, is the fourth part in a series of whisper pieces consisting of a vocal interpretation of typewriter-picture poems based of the letters in the words "whisper piece." It was read by two voices (Kersten M. Lundberg & Bob Cobbing) and then manipulated in the recording studio. The maquette for this work is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1960s / 1969

White Screen, 1976

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-20903-21312
Dates: 1976
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS