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Conventional poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:

The Hand of the Poet: Poems and Papers in Manuscript / Phillips, Rodney, editor ; Carroll L ; cummings ee ; Ginsberg A ; Kunitz S ; Padgett R ; Olson C ; Snyder G ; Smith WJ ; Blake W ; Kerouac J., 1997

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Identifier: CC-27706-28797
Scope and Contents The two-part exhibition "The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters" was organized by Rodney Phillips, curator of the Berg Collection, as part of the Centennial celebration of The New York Public Library. This catalogue is based on the exhibitions which presented writers from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries with drafts, letters, diaries. photographs and memorabilia in a personal and intimate setting. An essay by Dana Gioia, "The Prado of Poetry: A History of the Berg Collection" describes the background of Dr. Albert and Dr. Henry Berg and how their collection became one of the world's primary sources for literary research on American and English writers. In a scholarly introductory essay, "The Magical Value of Manuscripts," Dana Gioia writes, "The manuscript of a literary work became more than words; it represented a direct and unmediated physical link between viewer and author - a holy relic or shamanistic fetish...The scholarly alibi of libraries that...
Dates: 1997

Topolski's Chronicle: International Poetry at tht Royal Albert Hall London. No.5-6 / Alexander Trocchi, editor ; Ferlinghetti L ; Horovitz M ; Morgan E ; Brown P ; Mitchell A ; Smith St ; Jandl E ; Ginsberg A ; Lucie-Smith E ; Voznesensky A ; Corso G ; Hollo A ; Neruda P ; Trocchi A., 1965

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Identifier: CC-36625-38436
Scope and Contents

This issue consists of lithographed reproductions of poems read on June 11, 1965 at the Royal Albert Hall that Trocchi described as a "Happening" because of the unexpected crowd that attended an avant-garde event in a conservative place. Topolski contributed charcoal sketches of the participants. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Unwanted poet: commentary by James Neff / levy, d.a.; Dworkin J; Ginsberg A., 1986

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Identifier: CC-60431-55624
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This article presents a brief history of levy's stay in Cleveland culminating in a proclamation by its Mayor and Cuyagoaga County commissioners of February 14, 1986 as "D.A. Levy Poetry Day." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Who Be Kind To / Ginsberg, Allen., 1965

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Identifier: CC-29998-31390
Scope and Contents

Also designated as A Cranium Broadside. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965