Experimental non-fiction
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Elles sont tropes! Figure et tournures de la lengua francaise, 2005
The text is written by Quesmand and the book is illustrated by Berman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Everyone Knows Somebody Who's Dead, 1973
This is a short, autobiographical story about the author's friend and the trail of deaths by suicide of this friend and acquaintances. The cover designed by John Furse depicts a concrete poetic image of RIP. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Formula For Labor, 1988
The text consists of made-up words by Was during her first pregnancy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Soliloquy, 2001
This book was first published in a limited edition by Editions Bravin Post Lee in 1997. A signed copy of that volume is held by the Sackner Archive. Goldsmith records his conversational life from April 15, 1996 to April 21, 1996 in a stream of consciousness style. The personal aspects of his daily routine, working for an all night, avant garde radio station, creating Web sites, talking with Cheryl Donagan, his wife, attending lectures and art openings, and meeting Marjorie Perloff are all obsessively recorded by the artist /poet. Goldsmith describes how he went to RISD and used to make sculptures of books and then carved language onto the wooden books. Although he felt the sculptures were really beautiful, Goldsmith became much more interested in the language than in the actual form of the book object itself. The Sackner Archive holds one of these early pieces, "Steal This Book." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Traffic, 2007
This book deals with an almost minute by minute account of driving in traffic in the NYC area over a 24 hour period. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations, 1967
Flexitype heads [allowing the manipulation and distortion of type] were used in this book in co-operation with Cooper and Beatty. To the knowledge of the Editors of this book, it was the first time that Flexitype has been used in any quantity outside the field of advertising. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
