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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4805 Collections and/or Records:

A Humument Fifth Revision Page 195 / Phillips, Tom., 2002 - 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-47426-68423
Scope and Contents

This entire page is collaged. The top half is composed of an abstract picture on an aqua background.The bottom contains two small abstract pictures framed in brown toned paper. The poem reads, " Merely accept - I saw before me our returning shadow, a dream beneath shadow - I saw life late like a shadow myself as a dream," -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002 - 2004

A Humument Fifth Revision Page 205 / Phillips, Tom., 2002 - 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-47427-68424
Scope and Contents

The entire page is collaged in triangular shaped paperr.A photograph on the right center is changed by Phillips into a collage form.The poem reads, "At last the people - turned into street art the welcome image of the scanning self, - just us us - We are The trouble" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002 - 2004

A Humument Fifth Revision Page 207 / Phillips, Tom., 2002 - 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-47428-68425
Scope and Contents

This page is collaged in the upper right quadrant with scraps of brown and beige cuttings.The image seems to resemble a seated figure with a large hat framed in a window in a room with windows in the background.The text reads, "more than a couple the shining selves reflect - inner windows repeat the shared morning, - in the photograph, both of them banish change - wagger wang - wagger wang the wind" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002 - 2004

A Humument Fifth Revision Page 209 / Phillips, Tom., 2002 - 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-47429-68426
Scope and Contents

This page is totally collaged with out door scenes all containing people.The text reads, "staring oblongs. his dusty cards celebrated the people-- however scattered, the person matters," -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002 - 2004

A Humument Fifth Revision Page 215 / Phillips, Tom., 2002 - 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-47430-68427
Scope and Contents

This page is divided into two sections.The top section consists of five parallel orange bars and a sixth one composed of organic forms. Abstract creatures are behnid the bars and in the lower section they are revealed without the covering bars.The text reads, "command force one , fall to war - arm as if sombre hope defeated doubt. - in London XII - the wording was curt expect war - the careless twelve. the twelve in Downing Street; postponing excuses" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002 - 2004

A Humument Fifth Revision Page 223 / Phillips, Tom., 2002 - 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-47431-68428
Scope and Contents

This page is constructed in a chevron design with engraved collages in the upper center of the page and the lower two corners.The center section is framed in bright green paint.The text reads, "Irma, Irma--I can't ration my comfort weapons - all all eyes with tears in them. pain time - snatched hours of anxiety torture time - Irma, Irma, wretched days strain time - bush anger would spring out at him suddenly, he" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002 - 2004

A Humument Fifth Revision Page 266 / Phillips, Tom., 2002 - 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-47432-68429
Scope and Contents

This page is composed of cut and reassembled comic strips infive panels that are framed in beige cut paper. Probably the word bush refers to President Bush. The text reads, "remeber - bush - bush - remember that bitter name - remember him. The rude stare at destiny." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002 - 2004

A Humument Fifth Revision Page 282 / Phillips, Tom., 2002 - 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-47433-68430
Scope and Contents

This image on this page is a landscape with a dark cloud filled sky and shimmering water surface.The text reads, "indignant moon o moon indifferent visitor - come sun with perfect curve o hurrying sun come meet the music." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002 - 2004

A Humument Fifth Revision Page 294 / Phillips, Tom., 2002 - 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-47434-68431
Scope and Contents

The upper part of the page contains two action figures. The center section is a painting of parts of prostitutes calling cards.The bottom portion contains two red eyes on a bed of hair clippings. The poem reads as follows: "the voices of the other T P - smother and kill - he struck - meeting sudden fire - lunge - He expected the blow, and swerved - This was fast forward action. - How would she lash him? What of her gloves? - her dress like a parted rose What shoes perverse - meeting wild red eyes - against a background of his actual hair." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002 - 2004

A Humument Fifth Revision Page 298 / Phillips, Tom., 2002 - 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-47435-68432
Scope and Contents

This poem reads "chance words - merely connect - After inner yielding to the sea. - She sang. - her voice thrilled through liquid music - music to a fathomless libretto - "Let me live my life - no matter how the mountains fall" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002 - 2004

A Humument Fifth Revision Page 312 / Phillips, Tom., 2002 - 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-47436-68433
Scope and Contents

This page contains abstract, cubist drawings of four heads in each quarter of the page.The text reads, "some tea, and then the matter, the matter talk and chatter - he had the same attack before, --oh, Bobby, tell me do I bore ?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002 - 2004

A Humument Fifth Revision Page 314 / Phillips, Tom., 2002 - 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-47437-68434
Scope and Contents

This page contains a collaged red cross in the center over a lush green background. The top smaller section has a nurse's head from a comic strip with a blue collaged back ground. The botton small section is a collaged comic strip picture of a female in bed. The doctor and nurse mentioned in the text refer to Marvin and Ruth Sackner along with the initials m and r at the bottom of the page.the text reads. "entirely practical. the forest is an excellent doctor, - and chance her able nurse - and, of the nurses time is the kindest" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002 - 2004

A Humument Fifth Revision Page 362 / Phillips, Tom., 2002 - 2004

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Identifier: CC-47438-68435
Scope and Contents

The abstract image conveys a bright summer landscape. The text reads, "Autumn arrived and they bought the Mediterranean - and by the square yard summer paintings the rooms were well-ready to receive - even the children recognized les demoiselles - "Allo "allo" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002 - 2004

A Humument: Final Edition / Phillips, Tom., 2016

 Item
Identifier: CC-61991-10004434
Scope and Contents

Phillips dedication reads "for Fiona" [Phillips' wife]. In addition, "This volume is also dedicated in fond memory to the late Ruth Sackner." Marvin and Ruth Sackner togetheras collectors and friends have been the mainstayof support to A Humumentfor over thirty years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2016

A Humument: Final Edition / Phillips, Tom., 2016

 Item
Identifier: CC-61992-10004435
Scope and Contents

Phillips dedication reads "for Fiona" [Phillips' wife]. In addition, "This volume is also dedicated in fond memory to the late Ruth Sackner." Marvin and Ruth Sackner togetheras collectors and friends have been the mainstayof support to A Humumentfor over thirty years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2016

A Humument: Final Edition / Phillips, Tom., 2016

 Item
Identifier: CC-61993-10004436
Scope and Contents

Phillips dedication reads "for Fiona" [Phillips' wife]. In addition, "This volume is also dedicated in fond memory to the late Ruth Sackner." Marvin and Ruth Sackner togetheras collectors and friends have been the mainstayof support to A Humumentfor over thirty years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2016

A Humument: First Revised Edition / Phillips, Tom., 1987

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Identifier: CC-04108-4186
Scope and Contents

Phillips' dedication reads "for Ruth and Marvin Sackner, patrons, friends who guard my work between them like book ends." The first revision of the book contains 50 pages in which a new image has been substituted for the original. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

A Humument: First Revised Edition / Phillips, Tom., 1987

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Identifier: CC-04109-4187
Scope and Contents

Phillips' dedication reads "for Ruth and Marvin Sackner, patrons, friends who guard my work between them like book ends." The first revision of the book contains 50 pages in which a new image has been substituted for the original. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

A Humument: First Revised Edition / Phillips, Tom., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-04444-4528
Scope and Contents

Phillips' dedication reads "for Ruth and Marvin Sackner, patrons, friends who guard my work between them like book ends." The first revision of the book contains 50 pages in which new images have been substituted for the original ones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

A Humument First Revision Page 3 & 4 (print) / Phillips, Tom., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-54467-989948
Scope and Contents

This poem reads " for photo dismay. - my pillow-book; the puzzled sheets - my pocket-volume bound in reality," This is a tear-out page from the trade edition book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982