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Language poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:

A Cappella, 1973

 Item — Box 317: [Barcode: 31858072490844]
Identifier: CC-31993-33521
Scope and Contents

This is Andrews third book. The poems are composed with clusters of single and fragmented words whose content anticipates Andrews' more developed language poetry style. An introductory manifesto describes this new poetry. The cover design incorporates typed concrete poetry on th back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Axiom of a Torn Pulley, 1995

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-31578-33075
Scope and Contents

Of 42 copies published, 30 were distributed to the friends of author and publisher; only 12 were sold to the public. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Brambu Drezi: Book Two; Manuscript Addendum, 1996

 Item — Box 341: [Barcode: 31858072491263]
Identifier: CC-31068-32533
Scope and Contents

These loose sheets and pages consist of sketches and revisions of the 1st draft. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Corona, 1973

 Item — Box 317: [Barcode: 31858072490844]
Identifier: CC-30676-32118
Scope and Contents

This is the poet's first or second book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

D Rain B Loom, 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-48475-69504
Scope and Contents

Each page of this book is a collaborative poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Doubt, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-39285-41232
Scope and Contents

The dense poetry is described by Peter Ganick as "pure poetry...not of music, nor words...with something of meaning...with stunning conclusions.......Leftwich has created here a living entity...not to be missed for its reality." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Edge, 1973

 Item — Box 317: [Barcode: 31858072490844]
Identifier: CC-24658-25111
Scope and Contents

This is the first book published by Andrews. In it, he provides a definition of language poetry, viz., a) fragmentation and quality of words other than (and along with) their meaning, b) stress on texture, sound, rhythm, space and silence, c) less "content" (in the old sense) but hopefully the "language" becomes the content and d) the "individual" words have meanings and associations but these are not yoked together and aimed "outside the poem" at a single externally applied meaning for a poem as a whole. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Film Noir , 1978

 Item — Box 317: [Barcode: 31858072490844]
Identifier: CC-27216-27693
Scope and Contents

The typographic layout approaches concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Film Noir, 1978

 Item — Box 317: [Barcode: 31858072490844]
Identifier: CC-27217-27694
Scope and Contents

The typographic layout approaches concrete poetry. Bernadette [Mayer] heads The Poetry Project in NYC. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Improvisations, 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44187-46313
Scope and Contents

This is a tour de force of mainly language and performance poetry. Frazer utilizes the word, "glossolalia" in a number of the poems. This is defined as strings of meaningless syllables made up of sounds taken from those familiar to the speaker and put together more or less haphazardly .... Glossolalia is language-like because the speaker unconsciously wants it to be language-like. Yet in spite of superficial similarities, glossolalia fundamentally is not language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005