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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Festival Internacional de Poesia Viva, First (Second Presentation) / Fernando Aguiar, curator ; Vigo EA ; Higgins D ; Kempton K ; Blaine J ; Heidsieck B ; Papp T ; Bentivoglio M ; Nannucci M ; Xerra W ; Ori L ; Lora-Totino A ; Maggi R ; Adler J ; Claire P ; Aguiar F ; Aragao A ; Hatherly A ; Pimenta A ; Olbrich JO ; Groh K., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-13034-13326
Scope and Contents

Second presentation of the First International Festival of Live Poetry (first exhibition catalogue is also held by the Sackner Archive). This exhibition included selected originals and photographs from the first exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Festival Internacional de Poesia Viva, First (Second Presentation) / Fernando Aguiar, curator ; Vigo EA ; Higgins D ; Kempton K ; Blaine J ; Heidsieck B ; Papp T ; Bentivoglio M ; Nannucci M ; Xerra W ; Ori L ; Lora-Totino A ; Maggi R ; Adler J ; Claire P ; Aguiar F ; Aragao A ; Hatherly A ; Pimenta A ; Olbrich JO ; Groh K., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-13035-13327
Scope and Contents

Second presentation of the First International Festival Of Live Poetry (first presentation also held by Sackner Archive) held one year after the initial exhibition. This exhibition included selected originals and photographs of the first exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

[Photographs from Saarbrucken Visual Poetry Exhibition] / Trinkewitz, Karel; Higgins D; Sackner MA; Sackner RK; Takahashi S; Ruutsalo E; Dencker KP; Schauffelen KB; Trinkewitz K., 1984

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Identifier: CC-31104-32570
Scope and Contents

The Sackners were invited to a televised conference for German TV in which the definitions of visual and concrete poetry were discussed in German that lasted hours with no definitive conclusions. The concluding respondent in the conference, Wolfgang Schmidt, gave a wink to the Sackners and replied to the question "What is Visual Poetry" with I...DON'T....KNOW! The event included an exhibition and poetic performances. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Self Portrait, 1970

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Identifier: CC-42087-44088
Scope and Contents

The text begins, "OMBWHNW ($5.95) is enigmatic like the title. It's 'bound like a prayer book.'" The book that it cites is Foew&ombwhnw published by Something Else Press in 1969. It is not known whether this print was ever editioned or the size of the edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

The Book, Spiritual Instrument / Rothenberg, Jerome, editor ; Guss, David, editor ; Mallarme S ; Gibbs M ; Guss D ; Young D ; Knowles A ; Quasha G ; Higgins D ; Meltzer D ; Eluard P ; McClure M ; Hejinian L ; McCaffery S ; Duncan R ; MacLow J ; Eshleman C ; Meltzer D ; Hirschman J., 1996

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Identifier: CC-30292-31701
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a collection of essays dealing with the book. Mike Gibbs translated Mallarme's essay, "The Book" and illustrated it with photographs. Karl Young contributed an essay on performance books in which the book functions as a dynamic object; he also describes and depicts Mayan glyphs. Allison Knowles describes her Book of Bean; she was interviewed by George Quasha. Jack Hirschman translated the interview from Liberation with Edmond Jabes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996