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Conventional poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 274 Collections and/or Records:

Stardust, 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-22163-22585
Scope and Contents

Stardust refers to photographs. Poems relate to movie stars reproduced in book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Stitchin' Time: A Winter Patchwork, 1982

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Identifier: CC-25678-26138
Scope and Contents

The prints are stylized realistic images made to commemorate the 1981 Winter Solstice. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Stoma, 1984

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-30591-32029
Scope and Contents

Leslie Wayne did the cover drawing and Les Kanturek the interior illustrations. The book was done as a printing project of the New School at Red Ozier Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Subduing Demons in America: Selected Poems 1962-2007, 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-49491-70537
Scope and Contents Marcus Boon, who edited this book writes, Giorno's late-1960s poems see him expanding the use of found materials, including pornographic and countercultural texts, as well as the use of repetition. Indeed, poems like "Capsule," "Give It to Me, Baby," and "Johnny Guitar" are among the most rock 'n' roll poems ever written, every bit as psychedelic and confrontational as The Stooges or Jefferson Airplane, and probably just as much the product of a wide-ranging armory of pharmaceuticals, which, as Giorno has repeatedly insisted, have the potential to open and expand the mind and bring bliss. Balling Buddha, a multicolor confection printed on pages in the six colors of the rainbow, rather than traditional black on white, introduced Giorno's signature split lines running down the center of each page-as a way of both reproducing the multitracking used in his sound poems and perturbing the linear flow of text on the page. Giorno observes that the split line "breaks the lineal flow....
Dates: 2008

Tentative Titles for a Welsh Xmas Piece, 1969

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (1 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491305]
Identifier: CC-17685-18053

The Amo Soph Arcane by Jack Hirschman , 1997

 Item — Folder 47: [Barcode: 31858072460045]
Identifier: CC-33584-35237
Scope and Contents

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

The Blue Sail, 2002

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Identifier: CC-42824-44864
Scope and Contents

This book is a selection of Finlay's poems over 40 years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

The Chthonic Arcane by Jack Hirschman , 1998

 Item — Folder 47: [Barcode: 31858072460045]
Identifier: CC-33582-35235
Scope and Contents

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush and added color fields in acrylic paint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998