Skip to main content

Mesostic

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

Me Yes You No Us (090663), 1963

 Item — Folder 57: [Barcode: 31858072537917]
Identifier: CC-09833-10027
Scope and Contents

This lettered hand-drawn poem is collaged onto a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Mesostic Book, 1984

 Item — Box 133: [Barcode: 31858072457868]
Identifier: CC-02587-2629
Scope and Contents

Each page has been cut to four horizontal segments. A single word, white in color, has been cast into the white background of the page. A mesostic is formed from the middle letters of these four words. Reading down the center of the cover is the word alto which is the second part of the street name for the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Mistakes were Made / Klauke, Michael., 2014

 Item
Identifier: CC-59480-10002555
Scope and Contents

The mesotic in this poem is a sentence from Genesis. A high resolution image (600 x 600 dpi) is saved as 58480.jpg for publication purposes, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

Musica Visiva / Ori, Luciano ; Berio L ; Bussotti S ; Lombardi D ; Cage J., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-52614-73749
Scope and Contents

This book depicts Ori's visual poems set on music score sheets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Musicage: Cage Muses on Word, Art, Music / Cage, John ; Retallack, Joan., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27248-27746
Scope and Contents

This book takes the form of conversations between Cage and Retallack ranging from his theories of chance, composition, collaborations, and the aesthetics of multi media work. A critical essay traces Cage's earlier years and works. A detailed section of the book is devoted to Cage's Mesostic poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Nods: Aqui to John Cage / Cage, John ; Fahrner, Barbara ; Kelm, Daniel E. ; Gallo, Philip., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-20101-20495
Scope and Contents

The text is taken from John Cage's writings, the drawings were made by Barbara Fahrner, the printing was done by Philip Gallo, and the binding was done by Daniel Kelm. Stored with Barbara Fahrner material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Prepared Box: A Tribute to John Cage / Carl Solway, editor ; MacLow J ; Ay-O ; Flynt H ; Schneemann C ; Knizak M ; Ono Y ; Ginsberg A ; Brecht G ; Sharits P ; Knowles A ; Frank P ; Moore B ; Johnson R ; Anderson L ; Long R ; Hendricks G ; Shiomi M ; Beuys J ; Patterson B ; Watts R ; Kaprow A., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-02469-2509
Scope and Contents

A Tribute to John Cage was organized by Carl Solway and Allan Kaprow at the Carl Solway Gallery for the Chicago International Art Exposition. This work is stored on shelf near John Cage material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Ricercari / Accame, Vincenzo., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-24323-24775
Scope and Contents

Wikipedia Vincenzo Accame ( Loano , 1932 - Milan , 1999 ) was a poet , essayist and translatorof Italian. His poetry, essentially rooted in the context of writing, it caters to the visual arts in a constant search and analysis of the possibility of a relationship between word and image, and relationships, creativity, aesthetics, including various types of signs. Such research is also the fundamental theme of his work as an essayist. In 1964 he was the editor for the magazine neoavanguardia Malebolgia . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Sunpoem / Finch, Peter., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-12815-13102
Scope and Contents

The poem describes the sun with seven adjectives that have the letter O. The words are arranged so that the O's are aligned. The place for the final O in the word hollow is empty, with the missing O placed in line on top of the list of words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

the henry miller acrostics / Wilmarth, Henry ; Miller H., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-31191-32659
Scope and Contents

Although the title indicates that the poems are acrostics, actually they are mesostics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996