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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1862 Collections and/or Records:

blips, 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-56074-9999521
Dates: 2011
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Blissful Times / Alland, Sandra., 2007

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Identifier: CC-46530-49259
Dates: 2007
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Blue / Kitasono, Katue., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-54013-56872
Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Body of Work / O'Sullivan, Maggie ; Bernstein C., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-47125-49865
Scope and Contents

This book is a compilation of reprints of O'Sullivan's publications. In "tonetreks," she has composed concrete, shaped and conventional poems to depict Monet's paintings, a Giacometti sculpture, and a Rothko painting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Boggs: A Comedy of Values / Weschler, Lawrence ; Alechinsky P., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33703-35365
Scope and Contents

This book documents the antics of J.S.G. Boggs, a visual artist whose ouevre consists of drawn reproductions of currency that are bartered as artworks to merchants for wares or sevices. It raises the questions of trust in anything as confoundingly insubstantial as money, and how to place a value in art and other things. The book is illustrated with reproductions of currency drawn and designed by Boggs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Bohemiam Airs and Other Kefs / Anbian, Robert., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-24573-25026
Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Bones Pomes / Evason, Greg., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-13854-14159
Scope and Contents

Each poem, one on a page, deals with the theme of bones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Book 6: dis dis / Minnis, James., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-06307-6423
Scope and Contents

The words of the printed text are arranged to form abstract images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Book of Stirs / Coolidge, Clark., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-31134-32601
Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Books Go to the Rotunda: Reflections of a First-Time Curator / Miller, Daniel., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28007-29160
Scope and Contents

The author recounts, in a most charming essay, his experience in curating an exhibition on Armed Services Editions (ASE) from World War II. These oblong paperback books were produced for the military by a Council on Books in Wartime; originally there were 1322 titles, but copies after 50 years were rare. Daniel Miller sets guidelines for other novice curators which he calls the seven First-time Curator Commandments for his exhibition "Books Go To War." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Books of Blue Frit / Bradley, Daniel f. ; Drombolis N ; Ball N ; Hood W ; Bowering S ; lefler P ; Byrum J ; curry jw ; UU D., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-52254-73376
Scope and Contents

Also designated Outlands three. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Bop Angels / Phillips, Michael Joseph., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-38013-39899
Dates: 2002
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Bord-Dikter 1952-1955 / Fahlstrom, Oyvind., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-11149-11364
Scope and Contents

Contains early concrete poems contemporary with those of Gomringer and the Noigandres group and stylistically similar. Also includes Fahlstrom's manifesto on Concrete Poetry (1953). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Bord Duka Er! / Hammarberg-Akesson, Jarl., 1964

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Identifier: CC-44181-46307
Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Bored Messengers / Nichol, bp., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-05634-5741
Scope and Contents

These poems were taken from The Martyrology Bo(o)ks 7 (V11). According to Serendipity Books Canadian Poetry 1998 Internet, the publisher believed that the intended signed edition was abandoned. This was because Nichol died while the book was in press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Borges: The Library of Babel; Borges: Funes the Memorious / Rollins, Edward., 1991

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Identifier: CC-03442-3498
Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Bouma Shapes: Shorter Poems 1974-2002, 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-42223-44228
Dates: 2002
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Brambu Drezi: Book Three; Section 2 landscapes / Berry, Jake., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-39140-41082
Scope and Contents

Berry illustrated his epic poem with line drawings, photographs and abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Brambu Drezi: Book Two / Berry, Jake ; Arguelles I ; Leftwich J., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30970-32428
Scope and Contents Ivan Arguelles provided an introductory essay and Jim Leftwich an interview of Jake Berry dealing with the interpretation of this second in a series of epic poems. Both the manuscript of this poem and its first part are held by the Sackner Archive.Jack Foley on Alsop Review web site provided the following review: From virtually all perspective, early Greek philosopher to twentieth-century specialist, there is agreement that artistic creativity and inspiration involve, indeed require, a dipping into rational or irrational sources while maintaining ongoing contact with reality and "life at the surface." The degree to which individuals can, or desire to, "summon up the depths" is among the more fascinating individual differences. Many highly creative and accomplished writers, composers, and artists function essentially within the rational world, without losing access to their psychic "underground." Others, the subject of this book, are likewise privy to their unconscious streams of...
Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Brambu Drezi [Books One, Two, and Three] / Berry, Jake ; Foley J ; Lazar H ; Sackner MA., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-46139-48851
Scope and Contents This consists of all three books of this epic poem. It is inspired and sourced in fields as diverse as the Old Testament, quantum physics, hermetics, Marcel Duchamp, The Tibetian Book of the Dead, Haitian Voodoo, and the music of Bartok and John Coltrane. Its message is both dark and luminous and is a visionary work summoning "liberation in all its forms."ue Walker Internet: Brambu Drezi: Words that define liberation, that are beyond boundaries, that testify to the genius of Jake Berry. Brambu Drezi: a Wittgensteinian rendering of: "We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. But of course there is then no question left and just this is the answer." Brambu Drezi is an answer. It is without definition; it is a master poem, three books in one, a [dis]connected process, experiential musicology, a study in sound, line, and beat and flow and genesis of what has been and is, collated into an Eliotic time...
Dates: 2006
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

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