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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

A Prayer Wheel for Brion Gysin (I Am That I Am...), 2010

 Item — Box 289: [Barcode: 31858073143442]
Identifier: CC-52184-73305
Scope and Contents

Produced by endwar, "this object is modeled on the prayer wheels used in Tibetan Buddism. When spun, the device reads a potentially endless recursive variant of the divine tautology "I AM THAT I AM" used in one on Brion Gysin's permutation poems from 1960. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

CONverse 1-5, 1972

 Item — Box 334: [Barcode: 31858072491032]
Identifier: CC-22762-23197
Scope and Contents

Includes a card written to Pete [Peter Finch?] by Belsey requesting mention of these five cards in your "scene." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Deciphering America, 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-36313-38103
Scope and Contents

This anthology is based upon poets that Gibbs met during his first trip to America. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

die bearbeitung der mutze: gedichte, 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-37311-39162
Scope and Contents

The book consists of poems composed between 1975 and 1978. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

die bearbeitung der mutze: gedichte (abridged), 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-37312-39163
Scope and Contents

The book is an abridged edition of the first edition that includes 136 rather than 162 poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

East-Ender, 1974

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (3 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491347]
Identifier: CC-17767-18136

Elegy for 'Whimbrel' and 'Petrel', 1978

 Item — Box 190: [Barcode: 31858072459609]
Identifier: CC-12413-12640
Scope and Contents

The image of a sailboat with a small toy sailboat on its stern, is surrounded by text which reads "Elegy for 'Whimbel' and 'Petrel': Petrol." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

fur alle, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-37304-39151
Scope and Contents

The book was first published in 1974 and this copy was reprinted in 1984 but is not as experimental as Jandl's "Der Kunstliche Baum." It was awarded the georg-buchner-preis in 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Gin Chap, 1978

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (2 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491313]
Identifier: CC-20577-20975

O Dedo , 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-27124-27599
Scope and Contents

The book is shaped like a finger and the subject of all poems in this book deal with fingers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Ohel - Ruach [Tent - Spirit/Wind], 1995 - 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27761-28886
Scope and Contents

The first Hebrew word, ohel (tent) is changed in five stages to the final word in the column, ruach (wind, spirit). The letter forms are drawn in black ink. The concrete poem suggests how easily a tent can be transformed by wind. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995 - 1996