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Experimental non-fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Elles sont tropes! Figure et tournures de la lengua francaise, 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44502-46652
Scope and Contents

The text is written by Quesmand and the book is illustrated by Berman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Everyone Knows Somebody Who's Dead, 1973

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Identifier: CC-32714-34303
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1973

Formula For Labor, 1988

 Item — Box 620: [Barcode: 31858072461076]
Identifier: CC-43168-45224
Scope and Contents

The text consists of made-up words by Was during her first pregnancy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Soliloquy, 2001

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Identifier: CC-37806-39686
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2001

Traffic, 2007

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Identifier: CC-46662-49392
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2007

Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations, 1967

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Identifier: CC-62405-47538
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1967