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Concrete poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 607 Collections and/or Records:

Concrete and Sound Poems / Cobbing, Bob., 1992

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-20347-20744
Scope and Contents

Reprinting of favorite poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

[Concrete Poetry], 1978

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
Identifier: CC-17696-18065
Scope and Contents

Reproductions of examples of concrete poetry; one copy printed on white and the other on yellow stock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Concrete Sound Poetry 1950-1970, 1970

 Item — Box 633: [Barcode: 31858072464732]
Identifier: CC-17666-18034
Scope and Contents

Cobbing describes the history of contemporary sound poetry and the techniques utilized by the poets. He concludes "The very diversity of sound poetry is in line with its emphasis on the freedom of the individual and the withering of external authority, on man as a communal and social animal, on communication as a life-giving activity, things which in this bureaucratic and techncratic age we need constantly to remember." This is Cobbing's manuscript essay for the ground-breaking exhibition, "klankteksten ? konkrete poezie visuele tesksten - sound texts ? concrete poetry visual texts - akustiche texte ? konkrete poesie visuelle texte." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Controlling Time, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51989-73091
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

Cornponetonepome, 1963

 Item — Box 617: [Barcode: 31858072461027]
Identifier: CC-09799-9993
Scope and Contents

d.a. levy was the proprietor of Renegade Press. The title poem was set in the style of e.e. cummings. The poems entitled "Sound Poems" are actually tongue-twisters. This was Heckman's only book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

coRRida / Garnier, Ilse., 1965

 Item — Box 476: [Barcode: 31858073111779]
Identifier: CC-50392-71460
Scope and Contents

The print of this original is reproduced in Ilse and Pierre Garnier's folder, "Prototypes: Textes Pour Un Architecture" (1965) that is also held by the Sackner Archive. It is also reproduced in GArnier's book "Oevres poetiques ! 1950-1968 page 219. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

corsom, 1958

 Item — Box 638: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-58336-10001552
Scope and Contents

This page was personally scnned under the direction of Augusto De Campos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

Cortado por la Misma Tijera, 1977

 Item — Box 614: [Barcode: 31858072461001]
Identifier: CC-31007-32466

Counter-Blast, 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-06778-6897
Scope and Contents

This book designed by Harley Parker is a contemporaneous parody of Wyndham Lewis' Vorticist magazine Blast. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Counter-Blast, 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-06791-6910
Scope and Contents

This is a parody of Wyndham Lewis' magazine "Blast," with its contents dealing with communication and the Information Age. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Covent Garden Broadsheet: Beethoven Today. No.1, 1971

 Item — Folder 23: [Barcode: 31858072459823]
Identifier: CC-18728-19102
Scope and Contents

Designated Broadsheet No.1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Cried and Measured, 1977

 Item — Box 622: [Barcode: 31858072461092]
Identifier: CC-38316-40213
Scope and Contents

The poems are based on lists of names in the Aramaic writings of the Jews of Elephantine, Egypt. There is also an essay about the Elephantine Jews, an island in the Nile river at Egypt's southern border who lived in that place in the fifth century B.C. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977