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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 191 Collections and/or Records:

SIXIXSIX, 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-48908-69946
Scope and Contents

The poem is accompanied by letter pictures, fragmented test or illustrations by Hill placed on the outside margins of the pages. The bookbinding was done by Miekel And & Liz Was. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

SIXIXSIX, 2007

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Identifier: CC-48909-69947
Scope and Contents

The poem is accompanied by letter pictures, fragmented test or illustrations by Hill placed on the outside margins of the pages. In this version, Jake Berry has added more illustrations to the margin. This revision was first published in 1987 and digitized by Miekal And in 2007. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Sixteen Occasional Poems, 2000

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Identifier: CC-37646-39512
Scope and Contents

Each poem is briefly annotated by Gray. There is also an unspecified number of unsigned copies. The publisher, Morag McAlpine, is Gray's wife. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Space, 1970

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Identifier: CC-18517-18889
Scope and Contents

Some poems are composed in the style of e.e. cummings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

[Spontaneous] Random Sightings [1967], 2008

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Identifier: CC-47520-68528
Scope and Contents

This book consists of reprinted books, letters and reproductions of paintings. A collage and manuscript by d.a. levy from the Sackner Archive are reproduced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Tal I Tant, 1983

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Identifier: CC-23164-23602
Scope and Contents

The cover of the deluxe edition (100 copies) was made of wood. The Sackner copy is the regular edition (400 copies) in which the cover is made from cardboard. The aquatint by Amat that is printed across the verso of all the pages depicts a thick black rope. This book is depicted in Brossa's exhibition catalogue "Bverso Brossa" (2009), -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

The Book of First Books, 1978

 Item — Box 314: [Barcode: 31858072490802]
Identifier: CC-27154-27629
Scope and Contents

Second edition listing of first books by 2000 American and British writers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Burroughs File , 1984

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Identifier: CC-30497-31925
Scope and Contents

This is the first edition. It includes reproductions of "Pages from Cut-Up Scrapbooks" in which Burroughs' pasted remnants from "Moroccan streets, weird news items, St. Louis memorabilia, ruminations on sex and death, old photographs, notes from narcs, and other essential exotica - an incredible montage of telescoped existence on the main line, source material and matrix of his books." There are also sections of Burroughs' The White Subway, The Old Movies, The Cobble Stone Gardens, and The Retreat Diaries, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Dancers Inherit the Party and Glasgow Beasts, 1996

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Identifier: CC-30352-31767
Scope and Contents

According to Alec Finlay, this book included all the poems Finlay wanted reprinted as of 1996. It reprinted 46 of the 48 poems in The Dancers Inherit the Party, the Scottish poem entitled, Glasgow Beasts, that was illustrated with papercuts by John Picking and Pete McGinn, and Orkney Lyrics illustrated by John Arran. Robert Creeley contributed a brief foreward and Alec Finlay a long afterward that provides historic information about Finlay's early poetic years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996