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Visual poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 791 Collections and/or Records:

pass th food release th spirit book, 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-20944-21353
Scope and Contents

In this book, the poem "Quebec Bombers" as Jack David describes it, "begins with the phrase "dirty concrete poet' repeated twice, then changes to "the concrete is dirty dirty,' "sum like it clean what dew they ooo.' . . . the comparison presents the clean ordered life of a capitalist system and the dirty chaotic life of the lower classes." [Lori Emerson internet 2011]. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Paste Book Number One: Can a Girl Make You?, 1985

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55002-55667
Scope and Contents

The suite of 26 collages with the first title [Paste Book Number One] are stored in a single folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Paul de Vree, 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-15299-15621
Scope and Contents

Includes an introduction by Jan Van der Hoeven and several essays by De Vree on aspects of visual and concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Peace Lesson One, 1982

 Item — Box 271: [Barcode: 31858073143376]
Identifier: CC-21814-22225
Scope and Contents

Consists of plastic gun and flowers with typed inscription on card: a) hold the machine gun, b) insert flowers, c) fire. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Perfumer's Workshop, 1995

 Item — Box 67: [Barcode: 31858072538485]
Identifier: CC-37214-39058
Scope and Contents

The opened jars appear to have a fragrance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Photographs / Kitasono, Katue., 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-54035-642998
Scope and Contents Amazon.com: Kitasano was one of the most important Japanese Avant Garde poets of the 20th century. He was born in 1902 and died in 1978. It was right in the middle of the century that his creativity unfolded during the fifty years before and after WWII. His work entailed announcements of the production of his poems and photos, critical essays, the binding and editing of books and magazines. In 1966 Kitasono published the work Plastic Poem which was first published in English as A Note on Plastic Poetry in VOU (Revue de la Poesie Experimentale). This book shows many examples of his published plastic poems many of them published in the sixties and seventies in the magazine VOU. Contains many photographs in b/w and reproductions in color.The Sackner Archive holds the following issues of Vou depiicted as covers in this book: 85, 106, 108, 109, 112 and 114. The Sackner Archive holds the photograph depicted on page 113 of this book (it also appeared in Vou No.106), photograph on page 114...
Dates: 2009

Physical Language Laboratory, No. 3: Specimen/Kaddish, 1997

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CC-28027-29181
Scope and Contents

The poem object is a black egg placed in the bottom center of an acrylic jar. The title, Kaddish, is the Jewish prayer of mourning. At the base of the egg, a line of poetry by Walt Whitman is set in a spiral line. It reads,"All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier." The box is printed with the quote from an unidentified person, "...when she put out all her eyes from grief, they did not turn to fire but fell to earth as eggs..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Piecemeal Part Eight, 1989

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-21688-22099
Scope and Contents

Concluding essay by Harry Polkinhorn on Guy Beining's eight books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Piecemeal Part Four, 1989

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-21551-21962
Scope and Contents

Cover design by Bob Grumman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Piecemeal Part One, 1988

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-22912-23348
Scope and Contents

Introduction by Harry Polkinhorn. Cover design by Bob Grumman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988