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Obituary

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:

Ernst Jandl, 74, Viennese Poet of Many Moods / Pace, Eric; Jandl E., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34573-36272
Scope and Contents

Jandl is described as "a master of whimsy who compellingly explored darker themes as well." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Frederick Ted Castle, 67, Art Critic / Johnson, Ken; Ashbery J; Malanga G; Debord G; Acker K; Katz L., 2006

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Identifier: CC-45057-47233
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Founde Vanishing Rotating Triangle Press with Leandro Katz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Gronk: in memorium notice for da levy. No.3 / bp Nichol., 1968

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Identifier: CC-36931-38764
Scope and Contents

Probably published in an edition of 400 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Haroldo de Campos, 73, Form-Bending Poet / De Campos, Haroldo; DeCampos A; Pignatari D; Sarduy S., 2003

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Identifier: CC-41411-43396
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Simon Romero wrote this obituary and described concrete poetry as the arrangement of the letters of the word in shapes that would lend them multiple meanings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Henri Chopin: Avant-garde pioneer of sound poetry [Obituary] / Acquaviva, Frederic; Sackner RK; Sackner MA; Conz F., 2008

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Identifier: CC-47601-68610
Scope and Contents Henri Chopin Avant-garde pioneer of sound poetry Frédéric Acquaviva Tuesday February 5, 2008 The Guardian: "Towards the end of the second world war, Henri Chopin, who has died aged 85, escaped from a forced labour camp in Olomouc, in what is now the Czech Republic, after it had been bombed. He then spent time with the advancing Red Army, until, recaptured by the Germans, he and inmates of concentration and extermination camps were sent west on a Nazi "death march." Thousands died on those journeys and it was then that he listened to the voices of his fellow marchers, sounds which would infuse his work for the rest of his life. In the 1950s Henri created sound poetry, capturing breaths and cries made by his voice and body. He was, said his friend William Burroughs, an "inner space explorer", but the Frenchman remained a solitary figure, outside any artistic grouping, almost the only exponent of his art, and almost certainly the only poet to record sounds and movements by swallowing...
Dates: 2008

His Poetry Was Odd, but His Letters to the Police Were Odder / Applebome, Peter; Hamilton AS; Williams J., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51412-72507
Scope and Contents

The writer mentions a book on Hamilton by Lisa Borinsky, "Send This To the Immune Officer...sheds light on a reclusive New Jersey literary figure who was likened to William Blake." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Jan van der Marck, 80, Museum Chief Who Pushed Boundaries / Grimes, William., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51026-72105
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Van der Marck's obituary mentions that he organized the conceptual exhibition "Art by Telephone" in which artists phoned in their instructions on how their works were to be made and installed. The Sackner Archive purchased the catalogue and the unique archive of this exhibition from van der Marck when he was the Director at the Center for Fine Arts in Miami. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Joan Brossa, 79, a Poet in Surrealist Circle / Brossa, Joan., 1999

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Identifier: CC-31713-33225
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive holds several works by Brossa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999