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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 193 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Will Inman, re: anxiety: [today is saturday...] / PATA COURT ROOM CHANT, 1965

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60715-10003570
Scope and Contents

The drawing includes a Tibetan chant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Letter to Will Inman, re: poem submission: [immediate reply necessary], 1964

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-07645-7790
Scope and Contents

levy requests poems from Inman for Silver Cesspool #5 and Inman sends them to levy. Inman also mentions that Carol Berge is delighted with levy's publication of her book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Letter to Will Inman, re: seeking literature: [i changed my mind...], 1964

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60714-10003569
Scope and Contents

The note reads "will. i changed my mind tore up letter nothing is urgent -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. The rest of the message is typed.

Dates: 1964

Letters to the Great Dead: Dom Sylvester Houedard 1924-92 RIP, 1996

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-28593-29882
Scope and Contents

This print depicts a photographic portrait of Houedard along with the famous Haiku he translated from Bashu, "frog, pond, plop." It is depicted on page 140 of Furnival's book, "The Locative-Vocative Cases." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Life: Madrigal (Comentatios e Reducoes para Dois Pentagramas), 1973

 Item — Box 636: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-20289-20686
Scope and Contents

This experimental music score is based upon a concrete poem by Decio Pignatari. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Machine Poetry / Cobbing, Bob., 1977

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-17670-18038
Scope and Contents

Cobbing discusses the justifications in using machines to enhance the performance of sound poems. The handwritten text are notes unrelated to the essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Mail Action, 1976

 Item — Box 622: [Barcode: 31858072461092]
Identifier: CC-42236-44242
Scope and Contents

The book mainly documents the indictment and trial of the author for sending five "indecent" postcards in the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Mail Action (reprint), 2002

 Item — Box 622: [Barcode: 31858072461092]
Identifier: CC-42237-44243
Scope and Contents

The book mainly documents the indictment and trial of the author for sending five "indecent" postcards in the mail. It is reprinted from the 1976 edition; the back covers differ. The loose sheets consist of a biography and bibliography. The photograph depicts a visual poem related to Queen Elizabeth. The rubberstamp reads unsolicited pornography and is stored separately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Make Perhaps This Out Sense Of Can You / Cobbing B; Abess M; Traister D; Sackner MA; Sackner RK., 2007

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-47113-49852
Scope and Contents

This invitation was published for the exhibition on the work of the British poet, Bob Cobbing. The exhibition was curated by Matthew Abess who was the scholar in residence at the Sackner Archive during the summer of 2006 between his sophomore and junior years at the University of Pennsylvania. He also wrote the catalogue essay and organized a symposium at the Kelly Writers House with Maggie O'Sullivan and cris cheek, compatriates of Bob Cobbing, participating in the event along with Charles Bernstein and Marvin Sackner. All the Cobbing material for the exhibition came from the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

mdc grabinoulor (270365), 1965

 Item — Box 643
Identifier: CC-57847-10001099
Scope and Contents

Charles Cameron writes about this collection of '1 foolscap letter addressed "mdc" (my dear charles) concerning Pierre Albert-Birot's celebrated book Grabinoulor,together with4 foolscap pp of dsh's translation, book 3 chapter 8, with ca 20 - 30 corrections in dsh's hand on each page" The covering letter is stored with the manuacript in the manuscript binder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Millennium Mallarme, 1999

 Item — Box 622: [Barcode: 31858072461092]
Identifier: CC-35894-37655
Scope and Contents

The poster deals with the exhibition and symposium commemorating the 100th anniversary of Stephan Mallarme's birth. The card is a photograph of the artists in Un Coup de Des performance clothing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Moll fur das Pianoforte, 1970

 Item — Folder 33: [Barcode: 31858072459922]
Identifier: CC-19410-19793
Scope and Contents

This is an experimental music score with elements of visual poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Musee-Galerie Imaginaire, 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-34322-36017
Scope and Contents

Lemaitre presents a small catalogue of his works for sale. They date from 1954 to 1990. The Sackner Archive holds two works from this catalogue: a bronze sculpture titled "Dialogue de dieux" and a gouache titled "Les Signes s'approchent!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997