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Conventional non-fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

1968, A History in Verse / Sanders, Edward ; Ginsberg A ; Kupferberg T ; Rubin J ; Leary T ; Bly R ; Berrigan T ; levy da ; Hoffman A ; McClure M ; Guillevic E ; Hollo A ; Crumb R ; Burroughs WS., 1997

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Identifier: CC-30359-31774
Scope and Contents

This long, biographic poem deals with Sanders' music group, the Fugs, and the political events of 1968, detailing among others the ravages of the Viet Nam war, James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, the Yippies, the CIA, J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the Chicago Seven. There are descriptions of the assasinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King as well as small black and white scanned, photographic, documentary images, and line drawings of hierogyphics and fragments of calligraphic texts scattered among the poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Beat Coast East / Fisher, Stanley, editor ; Aldan D ; Corso G ; Ginsberg A ; Oldenburg C ; Orlovsky P ; Bremser R ; Kerouac J ; DiPrima D., 1960

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Identifier: CC-11430-11646
Scope and Contents

Cover depicts Claes Oldenburg wrapped in gauze bandages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

Mind Breaths Poems 1972-1977 / Ginsberg, Allen., 1978

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Identifier: CC-10309-10512
Scope and Contents

Several poems deal with breathing and Zen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Poems for The Aircraft / Keys, John ; Ginsberg A ; Joyce J ; Cobbing B., 1965

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Identifier: CC-30997-32456
Scope and Contents

John Keys was an American who emigrated to England in the 1960's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Probes An Introduction To Poetry / Harlan, William ; Ashbery J ; Berrigan T ; Dickey J ; Ferlinghetti L ; Ginsberg A ; Gomringer E ; Herbert G ; Herrick R ; Kostelanetz R ; Lamantia P ; McClure M ; Neruda P ; Olson C ; Patchen K ; Saroyan A ; Simic C ; Snodgrass W ; Thomas D ; Zukofsky L., 1973

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Identifier: CC-53543-58094
Scope and Contents

This is a textbook for writing poems with an innovative approach to the subject.Eugene Gomringer's poem "blow show grow flow" is printed and described as a constellation but the poet's name is not mentioned. Also printed are ee cummings "grasshopper" and the shaped poem "The Altar" by George Herbert. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Sidewalk. No.1 / Alex Neish, editor ; McClure M ; Finlay IH ; Butor M ; Ginsberg A ; Morgan E ; Burroughs WS ; Olson C ; Logue C ; Hasselwood D ; Bataille G., 1960

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Identifier: CC-37458-39311
Scope and Contents

Ian Hamilton Finlay contributed a conventional poem entitled "Orkney Interior." Michel Butor wrote an essay on Baudelaire. An excerpt from "Kadish" by Allen Ginsberg is printed in this issue. Charles Olson contributed a poem with concrete poetic elements, Edwin Morgan wrote an essay on "Jean Genet: A Life and its Legend." "Naked Lunch" by William Burroughs was reviewed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

Some of It / Mairowitz, David, editor ; Lebel JJ ; Mitchell A ; Burroughs WS ; Miles ; Weissner C ; Gysin B ; Ginsberg A ; Nuttall J ; McClure M ; Kupferberg T., 1969

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Identifier: CC-05764-5872
Scope and Contents

Silver mylar foil dust jacket. Themes deal with revolution, homosexuality, and underground press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Stanzas for Iris Lezak / Mac Low, Jackson ; Ginsberg A ; Burroughs WS., 1971

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Identifier: CC-37917-39797
Scope and Contents

Iris Lezak was Mac Low's lover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

the change 2nd issue / Ginsberg, Allen ; Nuttall J., 1963

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Identifier: CC-44631-46794
Scope and Contents

Also designated Writers Forum Poets number five. Jeff Nuttall designed the covers. The first issue consisted of 12 copies in which Ginsberg's name was misspelled as Ginsburg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

The Happy Birthday of Death / Corso, Gregory ; Ginsberg A., 1960

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Identifier: CC-18592-18964
Scope and Contents

The Bomb, a pattern poem, is reproduced on the fold-out pages. This is the 11th printing of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

Wholly Communion 2nd Edition / Whitehead, Peter ; Ginsberg A ; Ferlinghetti L ; Corso G ; Fainlight H ; Mitchell A ; Horovitz M ; Jandl E ; Trocchi A ; Logue C ; Voznesensky A ; Brown P ; Hollo A ; MacBeth G ; Hawkins S., 1966

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Identifier: CC-32845-34458
Scope and Contents

This book documented a film by Peter Whitehead shot at a poetry reading at the Royal Albert Hall, London, June 11, 1965. It consisted of poems as well as stills from the film. The concrete and sound poems were contributed by Ernst Jandl. The book was also published by Grove Press in the United States. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Wholly Communion / Whitehead, Peter ; Ginsberg A ; Ferlinghetti L ; Corso G ; Fainlight H ; Mitchell A ; Horovitz M ; Jandl E ; Trocchi A ; Logue C ; Voznesensky A ; Brown P ; Hollo A ; MacBeth G ; Hawkins S., 1965

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Identifier: CC-32843-34456
Scope and Contents

This book documented a film by Peter Whitehead shot at a poetry reading at the Royal Albert Hall, London, June 11, 1965. It consisted of poems as well as stills from the film. The concrete and sound poems were contributed by Ernst Jandl. The book was also published by Grove Press in the United States. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Wholly Communion / Whitehead, Peter ; Ginsberg A ; Ferlinghetti L ; Corso G ; Fainlight H ; Mitchell A ; Horovitz M ; Jandl E ; Trocchi A ; Logue C ; Voznesensky A ; Brown P ; Hollo A ; MacBeth G ; Hawkins S., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-32844-34457
Scope and Contents

This book documented a film by Peter Whitehead shot at a poetry reading at the Royal Albert Hall, London, June 11, 1965. It consisted of poems as well as stills from the film. The concrete and sound poems were contributed by Ernst Jandl. The book was also published by Grove Press in the United States. The signature and inscription relate to the previous owner of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965