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Conventional fiction

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:

Georges Perec A Life in Words, 1993

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Identifier: CC-27488-28536
Scope and Contents This biography of Georges Perec (1936-1982), novelist, poet, verbal gamesman, and master puzzler, whom Italo Calvino called, 'so singular a literary personality that he bears absolutely no resemblance to anyone else,' is very lucidly presented. The biographer, David Bellos, also the English translator of Perec's books, has written such an interesting book that it almost reads like a fictional account of Perec's life. It is extremely well researched and documented. Examples of Perec's typewriter art, which he did mostly while working as a technician in a Neurophysiology Laboratory in Paris are printed on pages 260 and 690. Alexander Laurence wrote the following book review printed on the Internet 1999.We're all familiar with the term "slacker" and characteristics of the twenty-nothings who populate Douglas Coupland's novel Generation X. These are all attempts to capture a vibrant youth culture that adds to the present time. But what if I were to tell you that the French writer,...
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 / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Gloom and Bloom, 1992

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Identifier: CC-19249-19632
Scope and Contents

This special edition differs from the ordinary edition by its matching dust jacket and slipcase. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
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

Grasping at Emptiness, 1985

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Identifier: CC-36323-38113
Dates: 1985
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

hard 2 beleev, 1990

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Identifier: CC-32857-34471
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) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Heart's Tide, 1972

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Identifier: CC-18514-18886
Scope and Contents

Semi-autobiographical novel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972
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

Igitur by Stephane Mallarme, 1974

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Identifier: CC-32889-34504
Scope and Contents

The black and white photograph by Wallace Berman on the cover depicts a frontal view of a man or mannikin with the face completely obscured by smoke. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974
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

Keyboard Poetics/Politics, 1998

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-36081-37858
Scope and Contents

This work is a pataphysical, political analysis of the typewriter keyboard as related to the sonnets of Shakespeare. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
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

Labyrinth of Time [Sample Pages and Readings] , 1987

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-21357-21768
Dates: 1987
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 BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

Les Existentialistes [Deluxe Edition], 1992

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Identifier: CC-07396-7540
Scope and Contents

This is a reprinting of Lemaitre's novel with documentation as published in the periodical, Lettrisme n.s. No.25-26, 1971. These issues are also held by the Sackner Archive. There are several examples of Lemaitre's visual and poetic works as well as his followers reproduced in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
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)

Lettre d'une Inconnue, 1992

 Item — Box 172: [Barcode: 31858072459211]
Identifier: CC-28633-29931
Scope and Contents

This work consists of 15 sheets, 17.9 x 81.2 cm conjoined to form a single scroll backed with purple cotton fabric. It is read as a continous work from top to bottom and printed with conventional typography (14-point Times Roman). The handmade lead storage container is decorated with gold wire. Mutel states that the lead box is about memory and inside the box we can find the whole life of the unknown woman going and going like a river. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
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 BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

Man / Wiz, Boom Boom., 1994

 Item — Box 621: [Barcode: 31858072461084]
Identifier: CC-28318-29496
Scope and Contents

The pages iIlustrate on facing pages, in cartoon style, well known metaphors about "man and heart," e.g., Man with a heart of gold, Man who juggled the hearts of others, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Boom Boom Wiz

Mavis Belfrage: A Romantic Novel, 1996

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Identifier: CC-31800-33318
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) / BOOKS

McGrotty and Ludmilla, 1990

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Identifier: CC-42815-44855
Scope and Contents

The theme of this novel is a parody of the making of a British prime minister modeled after Margaret Thatcher. -- 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) / BOOKS

Middle C, 2013

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Identifier: CC-56658-10000053
Scope and Contents Amazon.com A literary event"”the long-awaited novel, almost two decades in work, by the acclaimed author of The Tunnel ("The most beautiful, most complex, most disturbing novel to be published in my lifetime.""”Michael Silverblatt, Los Angeles Times; "An extraordinary achievement""”Michael Dirda, The Washington Post); Omensetter's Luck ("The most important work of fiction by an American in this literary generation""”Richard Gilman, The New Republic); Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife; and In the Heart of the Heart of the Country ("These stories scrape the nerve and pierce the heart. They also replenish the language.""”Eliot Fremont-Smith, The New York Times). Gass's new novel moves from World War II Europe to a small town in postwar Ohio. In a series of variations, Gass gives us a mosaic of a life"”futile, comic, anarchic"”arranged in an array of vocabularies, altered rhythms, forms and tones, and broken pieces with music as both theme and structure, set in the key of middle C. It...
Dates: 2013
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

My Hammer Is Red., No. 3, 1989

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Identifier: CC-06015-6129
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PERIODICALS / NON-COMMERCIAL AND ARTIST PERIODICALS

Old Men in Love, 2010

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Identifier: CC-59474-10002550
Scope and Contents This is the first American edition.The Guardian Ocober 5, 2007 Christopher Tayler: Not so long ago, it sometimes seemed as though the age's master plot revolved around a sexual encounter that caused at least one of its participants to be hauled up before a tribunal. Bill Clinton was this scenario's Exhibit A, of course, but his troubles only strengthened a fascination that started to grip writers at around the time of David Mamet's Oleanna (1992). By 2001, JM Coetzee, Philip Roth, Francine Prose, Jonathan Franzen and many other novelists had inadvertently made the shamed professor a stock figure in heavyweight fiction.Post Bin Laden, post Bush, different characters have proliferated. Terrorists and traumatised New Yorkers have flourished, but the prevailing figure is almost certainly the horrified western intellectual trying, and usually failing, to sort out his or her responses to the carnage on the world stage. These characters have come in a range of varieties, from glassily...
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

Old Wives' Tale, 1992

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Identifier: CC-19248-19631
Scope and Contents

This special edition was printed on Hahnemuhle paper whereas the ordinary edition was printed on Rives paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
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

Paris in August, 1991

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Identifier: CC-18760-19134
Dates: 1991
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

Pladoyer 1 (translation) , 1981

 Item — Box 319: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-21591-22002
Scope and Contents

English translation of M. Badura's "Pladoyer 1" which is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981
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 BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

poems of life & death, 2003

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Identifier: CC-41737-43729
Scope and Contents Pie o provides a wonderful biography of Jas Duke and selects additional poems to those reprinted from Duke's "poems of life and death." The accompanying compact disc is Jas Duke reading poems from the latter. thalia (internet); Jas H. Duke was born in Ballarat, Australia in 1939. Son of two schoolteachers, Irish-Scottish ancestors. His family moved to Melbourne in the 1950s. He worked as a draftsman/ a laboratory assistant/ a technical writer and dreamed of becoming a chess champion (didnt quite make it). As a substitute he read every book that he could find. In the 60's he became an Anarchist. Wrote short stories, and was desperately looking for a way to break-out! Went to England via the U S of A, where he circulated in the politico-psychedelic underground. In England he sought the commraderie of Freedom Press; met Ted Kavanagh, Cohn Bendit, Yoko Ono, and Raoul Hausmann. Jas became a political activist, and an actor who appeared in many underground movies by filmmaker Jeff Keen....
Dates: 2003
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

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