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Conventional poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 301 Collections and/or Records:

The Pasolino Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1997

 Item — Folder 47: [Barcode: 31858072460045]
Identifier: CC-31591-33089
Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

The Philosophy of Umbrellas, 2008

 Item — Box 46: [Barcode: 31858072460805]
Identifier: CC-48030-69053
Scope and Contents

The text printed on the red umbrella is by Robert Louis Stevenson. The colophon is printed on a circular paper fastened to the tip of the umbrella. It states that this edition is dedicated to Judith A. Hoffberg, whose passion for artists' books led her to become the Founder and Editor of Umbrella, a resource for news and documentation of contemporary book art since 1978. Judith is co-founder of The Art Librarians Society of North America (ARLIS/NA). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008
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Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Richard Minsky

The Pre-Linguistic Heights, 1970

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-20849-21258
Dates: 1970
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

The Projects, 1979

 Item — Folder 65: [Barcode: 31858072537990]
Identifier: CC-18769-19143
Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

The Puking Pidgeon #1 or The Fucking Duck #1 or The Search for the Holy Houkah, 1966

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-07623-7768
Scope and Contents

The painted drawing on the cover was done by levy. Bill Wyatt, is a British poet who carried on a correspondence with levy. Several letters from this interaction are held by the Sackner Archive. Printed by d.a. levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
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 POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / 1966

The Rotzone Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1997

 Item — Folder 47: [Barcode: 31858072460045]
Identifier: CC-31598-33096
Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

The Rotzone Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1997

 Item — Folder 46: [Barcode: 31858072460052]
Identifier: CC-33583-35236
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

The Seer in the Weird, 1990

 Item — Box 341: [Barcode: 31858072491263]
Identifier: CC-23637-24084
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) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

The Shore: A Poem, 1974

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-21970-22382
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) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

The Splintered Page: Homage to Asa Beneviste, 1990

 Item — Box 47: [Barcode: 31858072538675]
Identifier: CC-08841-9016
Scope and Contents

Work done in homage to Asa Beneviste, the American expatriate poet/publisher, who died in Yorkshire at age 64 of diabetes. The signs derive from original Welsh alphabets as Wales is closest to both Beneviste and Hirschman. -- 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) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Jack Hirschman

The Themersons and the Gaberbocchus Press - an Experiment in Publishing, 1948-1979, 1993

 Item — Box 608: [Barcode: 31858073143558]
Identifier: CC-01526-1559
Scope and Contents

Published on the occasion of the first exhibition in the United States of the output of this indispensable press, covering the enormously wide range of the work of publishers Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, Polish avant-garde artists who in their long tenure in England brought the likes of Jarry, Apollinaire, Queneau, Schwitters, and so many others to a wider English-speaking audience.. Includes a description and the covers of the 82 books published by Gaberbocchus Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

The Tom Poems / Cobbing, Bob; Leonard T., 1983

 Item — Box 387: [Barcode: 31858072461522]
Identifier: CC-17600-17967
Dates: 1983
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 POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1980s / 1983

The Vacant Frame and Walker's Book, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-23166-23604
Scope and Contents

Metal objects consist of lead type. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
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

The World below the Window, 1998

 Item — Box 615: [Barcode: 31858073143871]
Identifier: CC-29960-31351
Scope and Contents

This poem was composed and printed in celebration of the 80th birthday of Bill Smith and the publication of his collected poems by the same title. The small engraving by George Wingate illustrates the poem. -- 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) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / William Jay Smith

[The Yellow Love 2nd Ed.] / Cobbing, Bob, editor ; Nuttall J ; Gysin B ; Benveniste A ; DeVree P ; Cobbing B., 1992

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-20202-20598
Scope and Contents

Designated Pamphlet One 2nd ed. The first edition that was published in 1968 is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- 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 POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1990s / 1992

Thirteen Preludes, 1966

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-18075-18446
Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / Oversized A-C

Thirteen Preludes, 1966

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-18076-18447
Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / Oversized A-C

three poems by cleveland poets, 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-33516-35165
Scope and Contents

The painted cover by Mara has a resemblance to a Morris Louis color field painting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
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 POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / 1967

& thunder storms (220163-011063), 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55745-59670
Scope and Contents

The earlist poem on this page of multiple small poems dated 220163 reads 'the creator's - primordial crime - scrubbed.' Another poem that Houedard produced on 160263 reads 'Bang sid gpd - bangbang said i - we are both a bit kinky.' In a concrete poetic version of this poem with the same date also held by the Sackner Archive entitled 'dialogue,' the ending has been changed to 'we are both a bit crazy.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963
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 POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

Titre, 2011

 Item — Box 161: [Barcode: 31858072458148]
Identifier: CC-54129-643041
Dates: 2011
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 POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)