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Conventional non-fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1860 Collections and/or Records:

2004: In a Word / Scher, Paula., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-43236-45295
Scope and Contents

An article by Charles McGrath titled the Year of (Your Catchphrase Here) is illustrated by calligraphic colored drawings by Paula Scher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

10,000 r.p.m. & digging it, yeah! / Wantling, William ; Bukowski C ; Spicer J., 1973

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Identifier: CC-31371-32849
Scope and Contents

The style of the poems is reminiscent of the Beats. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

20,000 A.D. / Sanders, Edward ; Berrigan T ; Blake W ; levy da ; Padgett R., 1976

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Identifier: CC-39578-41537
Scope and Contents

The main poem in this book deals with the Pharohs and Egypt. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

A Basket of Chestnuts / Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus ; Geoffrey Cook, translator ; Higgins D ; Mott M., 1981

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Identifier: CC-10839-11049
Scope and Contents

G. Cook's translations fron "The Miscellanea of Venantius Fortunatus" is introduced by Dick Higgins who describes Fortunatus as "perhaps the greatest master of Christian poetry." Included in the book are six examples of emblem or shaped poems from the sixth century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

A Big Jewish Book: Poems & Other Visions of the Jews from Tribal Times to Present / Rothenberg, Jerome, editor ; MacLow J ; Ginsberg A ; Schwerner A ; Hirschman J ; Tarn N ; Tzara T ; Meltzer D ; Corman C ; Berge C ; Antin D ; Celan P ; Benveniste A ; Zukofsky L ; Stein G ; Rothenberg E ; Kostelanetz R ; Isou I ; Abulafia A ; Berman W ; Morrow C ; Drachler R ; Shaw K ; Kaprow A ; Corner P., 1978

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Identifier: CC-31534-33027
Scope and Contents

In his introduction, Rothenberg describes his preliminary work organizing this book and visualized it as "an image in this instance of some supreme yiddish surrealistic vaudevillle" he could set into motion. Rothenberg adds a commentary section to each of the poems and provides a section on its source. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

A Big Jewish Book: Poems & Other Visions of the Jews from Tribal Times to Present / Rothenberg, Jerome, editor ; MacLow J ; Ginsberg A ; Schwerner A ; Hirschman J ; Tarn N ; Tzara T ; Meltzer D ; Corman C ; Berge C ; Antin D ; Celan P ; Benveniste A ; Zukofsky L ; Stein G ; Rothenberg E ; Kostelanetz R ; Isou I ; Abulafia A ; Berman W ; Morrow C ; Drachler R ; Shaw K ; Kaprow A ; Corner P., 1978

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Identifier: CC-31526-33019
Scope and Contents

In his introduction, Rothenberg describes his preliminary work organizing this book and visualized it as "an image in this instance of some supreme yiddish surrealistic vaudevillle" he could set into motion. Rothenberg adds a commentary section to each of the poems and provides a section on its source. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

A Book of Split Cities / Griffiths, Bill., 1999

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Identifier: CC-37037-38877
Scope and Contents

Iain Sinclair contributed a introductory essay on Griffiths work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

A Colony With a Conscience / Dezso, Andrea., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47509-68506
Scope and Contents

Andrea Dezso has illustrated this article about the little-known New York roots of religious tolerance with drawings of reflecting historic New York buildings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

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

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Identifier: CC-44018-46131
Scope and Contents

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

A Direction in the Middle of the Air / Wagner, D.r. ; Harris DW ; Simpson G ; Miller B., 1968

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Identifier: CC-50581-71654
Scope and Contents

The front cover of a surrealistic collage was designed by David W Harris, the back cover with cartoons by Greg Simpson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

A Direction in the Middle of the Air / Wagner, D.r. ; Harris DW ; Simpson G ; Miller B., 1968

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Identifier: CC-48212-69236
Scope and Contents

The front cover of a surrealistic collage was designed by David W Harris, the back cover with cartoons by Greg Simpson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

A Foreigner in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Book / Jabes, Edmond ; Rosmarie Waldrop, translator., 1993

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Identifier: CC-31733-33245
Scope and Contents

This book is the last and most political of Jabes' books and is "his response to the increasing racism and intolerance he witnessed in France and elsewhere during his last years, and at the same time it continues his ongoing meditations on representation, language, and meaning." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

A Guide to the Maximus Poems of Charles Olson / Butterick, George F.., 1978 - 1980

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Identifier: CC-43861-45961
Scope and Contents

The hard cover book was published in 1978; the first printing of this soft cover edition was issued in 1980. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1980