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Mathematical poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:

1 x 1, 1996

 Item — Box 340: [Barcode: 31858072491255]
Identifier: CC-60838-10003693
Scope and Contents

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

2 x 2, 1996

 Item — Box 340: [Barcode: 31858072491255]
Identifier: CC-60840-10003695
Scope and Contents

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

3 x 3, 1996

 Item — Box 340: [Barcode: 31858072491255]
Identifier: CC-60839-10003694
Scope and Contents

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

4 x 1, 1996

 Item — Box 340: [Barcode: 31858072491255]
Identifier: CC-60837-10003692
Scope and Contents

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

7 TA / Behar, Andrew., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-38819-40733
Scope and Contents

Made for Marvin Sackner's 70th birthday, this greeting is a play on his nickname for grandfather, "Ta." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

23rd Tomb on the Left, 1992

 Item — Folder 17: [Barcode: 31858072459765]
Identifier: CC-23479-23924
Scope and Contents

The poem is a statement on the dangers of automobile racing. Included in a plastic envelope as "7 Assorted Pieces." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

65th Birthday / Furnival, John; Furnival, Astrid., 1998

 Item — Folder 39: [Barcode: 31858072459997]
Identifier: CC-29728-31105
Scope and Contents

This print was made to celebrate John Furnival's 65th birthday. The print depicts each year of his life as a colored number in a chaotic arrangement with overlays. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

105 posbL resons 4t ;; of thot or d ;; of doze hu undRst&, 2010

 Item — Box 620: [Barcode: 31858072461076]
Identifier: CC-54697-990134
Scope and Contents

The completed title reads "105 possible reasons of thought or, the sadness of those who understand." The inside paper cover prints a surreialistic story about Alan Turing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

A Number Progression (Wump Ertater) 1st Ed, 1970

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (3 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491347]
Identifier: CC-17455-17821
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum Folder 8. Each papercard sheet depicts a single stencilled, printed number, from 1 to 10, with 2 to 10 having repetitive overlays. The author is also known as Jennifer Pike and is the wife of Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

A Number Progression (Wump Ertater) 2nd Ed, 1990

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (3 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491347]
Identifier: CC-17452-17817
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum Folder 8. Each sheet depicts a single stencilled, printed number, from 1 to 10, with 2 to 10 having repetitive overlays. This second edition differs from the first in that the collaged element on the envelope is blue rather than yellow and the loose sheets are photocopied and have larger dimensions. The author is also known as Jennifer Pike and is the wife of Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Accounting, 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-53077-74223
Scope and Contents

The pages depict orderly pyramids of numbers from 0 to 9. This booklet is also designated Poetry Newsletter Special Issue 14 (PNSI 14). One copy is stored in a Depew Box and another in a Kostelanetz box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Arabics, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-05562-5669
Scope and Contents

The pages of this book consist of different arrangements and typefaces of the numbers 0-9, each page depicting a single number variation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Big Numbers , 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-53084-74230
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a wide range of Pie O's poems that often are spinkled with an Australian dialect. The pages from his visit to America on a Guggenheim fellowship deals with his political views as an anarchist. He dedicated this book to Thalia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Clock Mathemaku, 2001

 Item — Box 336: [Barcode: 31858072491115]
Identifier: CC-37491-39344
Scope and Contents

Grumman gave this print to the Sackners during his visit to the Archive in June 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Color Tarot , 1975

 Item — Box 312: [Barcode: 31858072490828]
Identifier: CC-24349-24801
Scope and Contents

Printed by Bill Griffiths. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Cymbols, 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-49906-70964
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts an image in color or black & white that recapitulates Noel's visual ideas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986