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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 31 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

As I Think Joyce Would Have Maintained / Cobbing, Bob., 1979

 Item — Box 394: [Barcode: 31858072461589]
Identifier: CC-17669-18037
Scope and Contents

This poem was published in Kollected Kriss Kringle Vol 4 by Anarcho Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

cinema / poem for peter levi / machined (060964), 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-08669-8842
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Peter Chad Tigar Levi, FSA, FRSL, (16 May 1931, Ruislip "“ 1 February 2000, Frampton-on-Severn), Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford (1984"“1989) was a poet, archaeologist, sometime Jesuit priest, travel writer, biographer, academic and prolific reviewer and critic. Levi was born in Ruislip, Middlesex. The family of his father (Herbert Simon Levi) came from Istanbul and that of his mother (Edith Mary Tigar) was English. His mother was a devout Roman Catholic and his Jewish father converted to that religion; their three children all entered religious orders. He was educated in private Catholic establishments starting at Prior Park near Bath, run by the Christian Brothers. When he was 14 Oscar Wilde had become his literary idol. Wilde had said that the Greek text of the Gospels was the most beautiful book in the world, so a school with more Greek was demanded and he changed schools to Beaumont College, a Jesuit school in Old Windsor, Berkshire. While at...
Dates: 1964

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

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

Fiveways / Cobbing, Bob ; bissett, bill., 1978

 Item — Box 387: [Barcode: 31858072461522]
Identifier: CC-17505-17871
Scope and Contents

Designated fives number fifteen. Poems were performed at five Toronto High Schools by Bob Cobbing and bill bissett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

IS, THIS and THAT (100465), 1965

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56897-10000262

Kinetic Doublets, 1965

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-09379-9565
Scope and Contents

This depicts working ideas for Frog Pond Plop, later realized in a different form as Opening Number No.6, 1965 and is stofred in the drawing binder. The typing of this work is stored in the typing binder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Make Perhaps This Out Sense If Can You / Cobbing, Bob., 1989

 Item — Box 390: [Barcode: 31858072461548]
Identifier: CC-17716-18085
Scope and Contents

The title sentence first was printed in the Kilburn Times and was also the title of an exhibition curated by Mathew Abess at the University of Pennsylvania,. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

One/Unique/Table, 1981

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Crozier, Robin: [Barcode: 31858072491362]
Identifier: CC-19636-20022
Scope and Contents

This book was made in the summer of 1981 by developing artistic variations of some of the 500 tables as exhibited in Crozier's Table Project at Stempelplaats, Amsterdam, January 1981. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Prospects / Cobbing, Bob, editor., July 1986

 Item — Box 395: [Barcode: 31858072461597]
Identifier: CC-17536-17902
Scope and Contents

These poems were written by third year students at Epping Forest High School, Loughton, Essex, when Bob Cobbing was a visiting poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: July 1986