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Conventional poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3988 Collections and/or Records:

Ajar (A History of Burnt Pans) / Stokes, Telfer ; Nekrasov, Vsevolod., 1991

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Identifier: CC-02984-3029
Scope and Contents

According to Stokes' WEB site: "A ravishing series of visual dishes have been served up for our delectation, varying from the raw to the overdone the verse providing the cutlery for this feast. The text by the Russian poet collaborator plays a role more like the guy ropes and pegs that keep a tent erect and fixed in one place." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

al-pha-bet-hai-ku / Helmes, Scott; cummings ee., 2003

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Identifier: CC-50693-71767
Scope and Contents

The Haiku for three voices that follow red, bronze and black painted lines is as follows: alphabet letters / acting in complete accord / sound blows through the eye. A second poem is titled "re-reading cummings." These works were a birthday present to Marvin Sackner from Scott Helmes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Alechinsky / Alechinsky, Pierre ; Ionesco E., 1977

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Identifier: CC-27131-27606
Scope and Contents

The book serves as a catalog for the first Andrew W. Mellon Prize of the Pittsburgh International Series. Introduction was written by Eugene Ionesco. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Aleph, Alpha, and Alfalfa / Williams, Emmett., 1993

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Identifier: CC-00569-583
Scope and Contents

Shares a slipcase with books by Coply and Iannone. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960's / Kane, Daniel ; Andrews B ; Antin D ; Ashbery J ; Baraka A ; Berge C ; Berrigan T ; Blackburn P ; Burroughs WS ; Cage J ; Clark T ; Coolidge C ; Creeley R ; Duchamp M ; Ferlinghetti L ; Higgins D ; Hollo A ; Howe S ; Joans T ; Kupferberg T ; MacLow J ; Mayer B ; Micheline J ; Olson C ; Oppenheimer J ; Ossman D ; Padgett R ; Pietri P ; Pound E ; Rothenberg J ; Sanders E ; Saroyan A ; Thomas D ; Waldman A ; Weiners J ; Yates WB ; Corso G ; Malanga G ; Heliczer P ; Giorno J ; Codrescu A ; Acconci V ; Holman B., 2003

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Identifier: CC-43016-45061
Scope and Contents Product Description: "This landmark book, together with its accompanying CD, captures the heady excitement of the vibrant, irreverent poetry scene of New York's Lower East Side in the 1960s. Drawing from personal interviews with many of the participants, from unpublished letters, and from rare sound recordings, Daniel Kane brings together for the first time the people, political events, and poetic roots that coalesced into a highly influential community. From the poetry-reading venues of the early sixties, such as those at the Les Deux Megots and Le Metro coffeehouses to The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, a vital forum for poets to this day, Kane traces the history of this literary renaissance, showing how it was born from a culture of publicly performed poetry. The Lower East Side in the sixties proved foundational in American verse culture, a defining era for the artistic and political avant-garde. The voices and works of John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, Charles Bernstein, Bill...
Dates: 2003

Allen Allen, 2000

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Identifier: CC-34959-36674
Scope and Contents

This portrait of Allen Ginsberg by Ferlinghetti is painted on a newspaper poem by Edward Sanders that deals with Ginsberg's life in 1993. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Allo / Peret, Benjamin ; Crombie, John., 2003

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Identifier: CC-42097-44098
Scope and Contents

The poem is a portion of a poem written by Peret, "Je Sublime" (1936) printed on pages with abstract shapes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Almanacco Purgativo 1914., 1981

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Identifier: CC-27139-27614
Scope and Contents

This book is a reprint of the original. It contains several advertisements for Lacerba. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981