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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

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

[8888 ZN], 1990

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55188-444678

A Number Progression (Wump Ertater) 1st Ed / Cobbing, Jennifer Pike., 1970

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
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 / Cobbing, Jennifer Pike., 1990

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
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

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

Editions Camomille, No. 27: Fucking Letters - Fucking Numbers, 2007

 Item — Box 169: [Barcode: 31858072458312]
Identifier: CC-52694-73830
Scope and Contents

The CD is a silent kinetic piece involving the movement of two circles with varied color schemes. Bertand was born in 1937 and lives and works in Paris, France. The book appears to relate the kinetic movements on the CD. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007