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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:

Ashtend Astartle In June Night / Basinski, Michael., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-40248-42219
Scope and Contents

Marvin Sackner heard Basinski perform this poem at a symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition, "An American Avant Garde: Second Wave" at Ohio State University in 2002. Basinski read from the poem and commented on the images while turning the drawing side to side and upside down. After he completed this very droll performance, Sackner came up from the audience to ask him if he had ever recorded it. Basinski replied "no, because it is never the same each time that I do it." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Cartouche of Un Nome Singing / Basinski, Michael., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31726-33238
Scope and Contents

The title page reads - Gnostic: the nome of she are words of power, unspeakable and dwelling in forrest shadow in the midst of insect song. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Color, images and "words that aren't words" / Longenecker, Donna; Basinski M., 2002

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Identifier: CC-39475-41431
Scope and Contents

This article describes how "Michael Basinski's visual poetry flourishes in and beyond the Internet world of Webzines." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

dbqp: visualizing poetics / Huth, Ge(of) ; Basinski M ; Saper C ; Nichol bp ; Lipman J ; Grumman B ; And M ; Was E ; Bohn W ; Saroyan A ; Byrum J ; levy da ; Lax R ; Marinetti FT ; Phillips T ; Cross D ; Luis C ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Leftwich J ; Patchen K ; Padin C ; Vassilakis N ; Bennett JM ; Altemus R ; Brewton J ; Huth N ; Porter B ; Beining G ; Endwar ; Beckett T ; Keppler J ; Topel A ; Helmes S., 2003 - 2004

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Identifier: CC-51444-72540
Scope and Contents

Subtitled "Visual poetry and personal experience" this massive notebook contains writings and interviews on poetic and personal experiences of Huth. In diary-like form from his blog, Huth contributes concrete and visual poems. This work is an example of Huth's brilliance as a poet, writer, archivist, critic and publisher. A visit by Huth to the Sackner Archive on April 13, 2004 titled "Home Sweet Museum" is described. In an illuminating essay dated June 15, 2004 Huth describes how he writes and how he creates fidgetglyphs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003 - 2004

Funginii / Basinski, Michael., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31727-33239
Scope and Contents

The theme of this poem is mushrooms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Hera Oons / Basinski, Michael., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31724-33236
Scope and Contents

The drawing is done on a page from a book on mushrooms and includes printed drawings of mushrooms and a caption. One of the mushrooms in the drawing is titled, "Scleroderma verrucosum." The title and subject of Sackner's first published medical book was "Scleroderma," a disease of humans and unrelated to the mushroom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Language to Cover a Wall: Visual Poetry through Its Changing Media / Steve McCaffery, curator ; Karen Mac Cormack, curator ; Michael Basinski, curator ; Sackner MA ; Dutton P ; Kubota J ; Sutherland WM ; And M ; Beaulieu D ; bissett b ; Bok C ; Bory JF ; Bradley Df ; Broudy H ; Carroll L ; Chopin H ; Cinicolo-3 D ; Claire P ; Cobbing B ; Coolidge C ; Copithorne J ; cummings ee ; curry jw ; Cutts S ; Daniels D ; Danon B ; DeCampos A ; Plaza J ; deCointet G ; Dellafiora D ; Vigo EA ; Drucker J ; Dudley M ; Endwar ; Etlinger A ; Federman R ; Finlay IH ; Fritton C ; Furnival J ; Grumman B ; Gut E ; Halsey A ; Heidsieck B ; Herbert G ; Higgins D ; Holzer J ; Houedard DS ; Howe W ; Huth G ; Jaeger P ; Jess ; Jirgens K ; Joe ; Johnson R ; Johnson Ro ; King R ; Knowles A ; Kostelanetz R ; Kriwet F ; Kruger B ; Lax R ; Leftwich J ; levy da ; Logue C ; Lora-Totino A ; MacLow J ; Mayer HJ ; Mon F ; Monk G ; Nichol bp ; O'Brien G ; Padin C ; Patchen K ; Paz O ; Phillips T ; Rosenberg MR ; Royer R ; Serafini L ; Todorovic M ; Spoerri D ; Valoch J ; VanHorn E ; Watt B ; Weiner H ; Werschler-Henry D ; Williams J ; Glazier LP., 2011

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Identifier: CC-54719-990153
Scope and Contents

Marvin Sackner presented the opening night address entitled "jw curry's Exemplary Archive" for the symposium that also included a performance by a group of Canadian sound poets. Many of the works in this exhibition were lent from the collection of McCaffery and MacCormack. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Milk Ov Inseacts Camells, 2002

 Item — Folder 5: [Barcode: 31858072459435]
Identifier: CC-40247-42218
Scope and Contents

Marvin Sackner heard Basinski perform this poem at a symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition, "An American Avant Garde: Second Wave" at Ohio State University in 2002. Basinski read from the poem and commented on the images while turning the drawing side to side and upside down. After he completed this very droll performance, Sackner came up from the audience to ask him if he had ever recorded it. Basinski replied "no, because it is never the same each time that I do it." Lastly, Basinski indicated that the template for the layout of the poem was an opened Cheerios cereal box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Out of sequence, 2014

 Item — Folder 6: [Barcode: 31858072459443]
Identifier: CC-58346-10001562
Scope and Contents

This print depicts the vowels, a e o in different calligraphic styles scattered throughout the image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

Post Card 4: Pizzzz with Forg / Basinski, Michael., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-43880-45982
Scope and Contents

The image on the cover of a drawing/collage was part of the SoundVision/VisionSound III exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Prepared Tube One: Song of the Red Toad / Michael Basinski., 2011

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Identifier: CC-54929-990345
Scope and Contents

According to Basinski, this prepared tube is an example of an "opem," which is a poem for improvisational performance. He indicates that one should perform the opems in ensemble via improvisational interpretation by "reading" and voicing the textual elements through the tubes (or not) and around them. These opems are instruments and should be treated as such and they are scores and, again, should be engaged as such. Use silents and sound. Play. Orchestrate. Duration is variable. This work was displayed in the Gallery's exhibition entitled, Object Poems (2011). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Prepared Tube One: Song of the Red Toad / Michael Basinski., 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-54929-990345
Scope and Contents

According to Basinski, this prepared tube is an example of an "opem," which is a poem for improvisational performance. He indicates that one should perform the opems in ensemble via improvisational interpretation by "reading" and voicing the textual elements through the tubes (or not) and around them. These opems are instruments and should be treated as such and they are scores and, again, should be engaged as such. Use silents and sound. Play. Orchestrate. Duration is variable. This work was displayed in the Gallery's exhibition entitled, Object Poems (2011). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Spidertangle: The Book / And, Miekal, editor ; Satanovsky I ; Kostelanetz R ; Strangulensis F ; Daniels D ; Damon M ; Lipman J ; Leftwich J ; Topel A ; Young K ; Luis C ; Keith B ; Ernst KS ; Bennett JM ; Basinski M ; Austin WJ ; Helmes S ; Vassilakis N ; Hill C ; Quarles L ; Keenan J ; Rosenberg MR ; Ganick P ; LaCook L ; Glass Jjr ; Grumman B ; Murphy S., 2002

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Identifier: CC-40326-42297
Scope and Contents

This first edition book was printed in October 2002 to celebrate Xexoxial's reimergence into publishing & electronic networking. The collection was inspired by the gathering of more than 20 visual poets who attended the Second Wave festival at Ohio State University, Summer 2002. The book was dedicated to the life and art of David Cole and Bob Cobbing. It also appeared on And's website - downloaded by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002