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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

A Conversation with David Antin / Antin, David ; Bernstein, Charles ; Antin E., 2002

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Identifier: CC-44018-46131
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With the exception of the signatures of the authors, this limited edition does not differ from the ordinary edition. The added price was set to subsidize the publication of the trade edition of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Epigramititis: 118 Living American Poets / Johnson, Kent, editor ; Kunitz S ; Simic C ; Antin D ; Graham J ; Andrews B ; Bernstein C ; Lehman D ; Ashbery J ; Koch K ; MacLow J ; Howe S ; Beer J ; Davis J ; Lauterbach A ; Whalen P ; Lin T ; Sondheim A ; Daniels C ; Eshleman C ; Palmer M ; Bly R ; Lifshin L ; Stefans BK ; Merwin W ; Joris P ; Creeley R ; Padgett R ; Evans S ; McCord H ; Davies A ; Silliman R ; Elmslie K ; Yau J ; Alexander W ; Grenier R ; Debrot J ; Codrescu A ; Baraka A ; Watten B ; Damon M ; Smith R ; Bromige D ; Hejinian L ; Alexander C ; Robinson A ; Napora J ; Wieners J ; Dworkin C ; Howe F ; Featherstone D ; Luoma B ; Wakoski D ; Snyder G ; DiPalma R ; Lazer H ; Edson R ; Young D ; Scalapino L., 2004

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Identifier: CC-50164-71228
Scope and Contents An Epigram is a brief, clever, and usually memorable statement. Derived from the Greek: "to write on - inscribe"[1], the literary device has been employed for over two millennia. The Greek tradition of epigrams began as poems inscribed on votive offerings at sanctuaries "” including statues of athletes "” and on funerary monuments, for example "Go tell it to the Spartans, passer-by"¦". These original epigrams did the same job as a short prose text might have done, but in verse. Epigram became a literary genre in the Hellenistic period, probably developing out of scholarly collections of inscriptional epigrams. Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between 'epigram' and 'elegy' is sometimes indistinct (they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise. Many of the...
Dates: 2004

July: Poems All Over the Place / Granary Books ; Acker K ; Ahern T ; Antin D ; Ashbery J ; Beltrametti F ; Benson S ; Bernstein C ; Berrigan T ; bissett b ; Blackburn P ; Blaser R ; Brainard J ; Brandi J ; Braunstein T ; Burke C ; Meltzer D ; Burroughs WS ; Cage J ; Celan P ; Caws MA ; Clark T ; Clay S ; Phillips R ; Cobbing B ; Congdon K ; Coolidge C ; Corman C ; Creeley R ; Cutts S ; Crombie J ; Dawson F ; Denes A ; DiPrima D ; Dienes S ; DiPalma R ; Drescher H ; Drucker J ; Duchamp M ; Eigner L ; Elmslie K ; Ely T ; Eshleman C ; Finlay IH ; Ford CH ; Fisher A ; Frank P ; Gadd M ; Garnier P ; Gilbert G ; Gilbert S ; Gins M ; Ginsberg A ; Giorno J ; Grossinger R ; Hamady W ; Grenier R ; Heissenbuttel H ; Helmes S ; Higgins D ; Hirschman J ; Hollo A ; Hoogstraten H ; Howe S ; Hoyem A ; Huelsenbeck R ; Jankola B ; Johnson H ; Johnson R ; Joris P ; Kaufman B ; Kerouac J ; Klima S ; Kostelanetz R ; Kristeva J ; Kupferberg T ; Lachance B ; levy da ; MacLow J ; Mathews H ; McCaffery S ; Nichol bp ; McClure M ; Meltzer D ; Michaux H ; Morgan E ; Napora J ; Nova GL ; Nuttall J ; Olson C ; Ondaatje M ; Owen M ; Owens R ; Padgett R ; Paz O ; Phillips T ; Ponge F ; Porter B ; Quasha G ; Rothenberg J ; Rower H ; Sanders E ; Saroyan A ; Scalapino L ; Schneemann C ; Schorn B ; Schwerner A ; Schwitters K ; Shattuck R ; Silliman R ; Stein C ; Stein G ; Tarn N ; Stokes T ; Turnbull G ; Wakoski D ; Waldman A ; Waldrop K ; Waldrop R ; Watten B ; Weiner H ; Williams J ; Weiners J ; Young K ; Young L ; Zelevansky P ; Zukofsky L ; Zweig E ; Tzara T., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32772-34364
Scope and Contents

Several of the books listed in this catalogue were formerly in the library of Armand Schwerner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

One Million Words of Book Notes 1958-1993 / Kostelanetz, Richard ; Antin D ; Apollinaire G ; Arnheim R ; Atchley D ; Atwood M ; Beckett S ; Berrigan T ; Biederman C ; Bowler B ; Bowles J ; Breton A ; Bukowski C ; Burke K ; Burroughs WS ; Gysin B ; Butor M ; Cage J ; Carroll L ; Celant G ; Cendrars B ; Clark T ; Cohen A ; Colombo JR ; Coolidge C ; Creeley R ; Davey F ; Dawson F ; Denby E ; Depew W ; Dickey J ; Duncan R ; Ehrenburg I ; Ellmann R ; Federman R ; Ferlinghetti L ; Ford CH ; Fox H ; Gass W ; Ginsberg A ; Gins M ; Giorno J ; Gray C ; Groh K ; Gross R ; Quasha G ; Grossinger R ; Henri A ; Herman J ; Ploog J ; Weissner C ; Higgins D ; Hill A ; Artaud A ; Hirschman J ; Hoffman A ; Hollander J ; Jandl E ; Jarry A ; Johnson R ; Joyce J ; Kerouac J ; Kesey K ; Kirby M ; Kostelanetz R ; Kriwet F ; Lamantia P ; Lewis WP ; Lissitzky E ; Lissitzky-Kuppers S ; Lucie-Smith E ; MacLow J ; MacLennan T ; Malanga G ; Malevich K ; Mallarme S ; Marcus G ; Massin ; Mathews H ; McClure M ; McLuhan M ; Saleh D ; Meltzer D ; Merton T ; Lax R ; Michaux H ; Micheline J ; Miller H ; Moholy-Nagy L ; Morgenstern C ; Nichol bp ; Nuttall J ; Ockerse T ; Ono Y ; Patchen K ; Perchik S ; Phillips MJ ; Phillips T ; Porter B ; Pritchard NH-II ; Rothenberg J ; Queneau R ; Ray M ; Reinhardt A ; Rickey G ; Rose B ; Oldenburg C ; Roseliep R ; Ruscha E ; Sanders E ; Saroyan A ; Schafer RM ; Shattuck R ; Smith WJ ; Snodgrass W ; Sohm H ; Stein G ; Steiner W ; Steinitz K ; Sukenick R ; Swenson M ; Thomas D ; Thomson V ; Tschichold J ; VanDoesburg T ; Vonnegut KJr ; Waldrop K ; Waldrop R ; Warhol A ; Williams E ; Williams J ; Young L ; Zukofsky L., 1996

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Identifier: CC-30033-31427
Scope and Contents Kostelanetz has written terse, pithy, highly opinionated, reviews of books that he read from 1958-1993, including reviews of his own books on rereading them. He closes each review with a grade. The following books that he reviewed and graded are held by the Sackner Archive. He provides dates of publication that might differ from those listed in the Sackner Archive database.David Antin: Code of Flag Behavior (1968) FAIR; Talking (1972) FAIR; Talking at the Boundaries (1976) GOOD; Tuning (1984) GOOD. Dana Atchley: Space Atlas (1971) GOOD.Ted Berrigan: The Sonnets (1967) FAIR. Charles Biederman: Art as the Evolution of Visual Knowledge (1948) VERY GOOD. Berjouhi Bowler: The Word as Image (1970) FAIR. Jerry Bowles: Art Work, No Commercial Value (1972) FAIR. Kenneth Burke: Collected Poems 1915-1967 (1968) VERY GOOD. William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin: The Third Mind (1979) VERY GOOD. Michel Butor: Mobile (1962) VERY GOOD.John Cage: Silence (1961) FAIR; A Year from Monday (1967) VERY...
Dates: 1996

Poems for the Millennium: Volume Two from Postwar to Millenium / Rothenberg, Jerome, editor ; Joris, Pierre, editor ; Alechinsky P ; Andrews B ; Antin D ; Artaud A ; Artmann HC ; Ashbery J ; Balestrini N ; Bann S ; Bayer K ; Beckett S ; Bernstein C ; Berrigan T ; Blackburn P ; Blaser R ; Brecht G ; Breton A ; Brossard N ; Cage J ; Celan P ; Chopin H ; Cobbing B ; Coolidge C ; Corso G ; Costley R ; Creeley R ; DeCampos A ; DeCampos H ; Deguy M ; Depestre R ; DiPrima D ; Dotremont C ; Duchamp M ; Duncan R ; Eshleman C ; Filliou R ; Finlay IH ; Fisher A ; Garnier I ; Garnier P ; Gillespie AL ; Ginsberg A ; Guyotat P ; Gomringer E ; Heidsieck B ; Higgins D ; Hollo A ; Howe S ; Jandl E ; Joris P ; Jorn A ; Joyce J ; Kaufman B ; Kerouac J ; Kirsch S ; MacLow J ; MacDiarmid H ; Maciunas G ; Mansour J ; Mayrocker F ; McCaffery S ; McClure M ; Meltzer D ; Michaux H ; Olson C ; Oppen G ; Niccolai G ; Nichol bp ; O'Sullivan M ; Owens R ; Paz O ; Phillips D ; Pound E ; Raworth T ; Roche D ; Rosenberg J ; Rothenberg J ; Ruhm G ; Sanders E ; Scalapino L ; Schneemann C ; Schwerner A ; Niikuni S ; Silliman R ; Spatola A ; Debord G ; Stein C ; Stein G ; Tarn N ; Voznesensky A ; Waldman A ; Waldrop R ; Watten B ; Weiner H ; Williams E ; Young K ; Zukofsky L ; Weiner O ; Weiner H ; Guston P., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31439-32928
Scope and Contents

The cover design depicts a page of Tom Phillips' A Humument. This extensive poetry anthology has brief comments that accompany some of the poems, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Poems for the Millennium: Volume Two from Postwar to Millenium / Rothenberg, Jerome, editor ; Joris, Pierre, editor ; Alechinsky P ; Andrews B ; Antin D ; Artaud A ; Artmann HC ; Ashbery J ; Balestrini N ; Bann S ; Bayer K ; Beckett S ; Bernstein C ; Berrigan T ; Blackburn P ; Blaser R ; Brecht G ; Breton A ; Brossard N ; Cage J ; Celan P ; Chopin H ; Cobbing B ; Coolidge C ; Corso G ; Costley R ; Creeley R ; DeCampos A ; DeCampos H ; Deguy M ; Depestre R ; DiPrima D ; Dotremont C ; Duchamp M ; Duncan R ; Eshleman C ; Filliou R ; Finlay IH ; Fisher A ; Garnier I ; Garnier P ; Gillespie AL ; Ginsberg A ; Guyotat P ; Gomringer E ; Heidsieck B ; Higgins D ; Hollo A ; Howe S ; Jandl E ; Joris P ; Jorn A ; Joyce J ; Kaufman B ; Kerouac J ; Kirsch S ; MacLow J ; MacDiarmid H ; Maciunas G ; Mansour J ; Mayrocker F ; McCaffery S ; McClure M ; Meltzer D ; Michaux H ; Olson C ; Oppen G ; Niccolai G ; Nichol bp ; O'Sullivan M ; Owens R ; Paz O ; Phillips D ; Pound E ; Raworth T ; Roche D ; Rosenberg J ; Rothenberg J ; Ruhm G ; Sanders E ; Scalapino L ; Schneemann C ; Schwerner A ; Niikuni S ; Silliman R ; Spatola A ; Debord G ; Stein C ; Stein G ; Tarn N ; Voznesensky A ; Waldman A ; Waldrop R ; Watten B ; Weiner H ; Williams E ; Young K ; Zukofsky L ; Weiner O ; Weiner H ; Guston P., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31471-32962
Scope and Contents

The cover design depicts a page of Tom Phillips' A Humument. There are brief comments that accompany some of the poems in this extensive poetry anthology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998