Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002

Five Visual Poems 2nd edition / Cobbing, Bob., 1972

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Identifier: CC-17495-17861

Scope and Contents

Designated folder number nine. Poems include "Worm," "Typestract," "Grin," "Are Your Children Safe in the Sea," and "Spontaneous Appealinair." The earliest poem, "Worm" was initially written in 1954 and then revised in 1964. Reprints several poems published in "Eyerun" 1966, also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Five Visual Poems / Cobbing, Bob., 1971

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Identifier: CC-38285-40181

Scope and Contents

Designated writers forum folder number nine. Poems include "Worm," "Typestract," "Grin," "Are Your Children Safe in the Sea," and "Spontaneous Appealinair." The earliest poem, "Worm" was initially written in 1954 and then revised in 1964. Reprints several poems published in "Eyerun" 1966, also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Fiveways / Cobbing, Bob ; bissett, bill., 1978

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Identifier: CC-17505-17871

Scope and Contents

Designated fives number fifteen. Poems were performed at five Toronto High Schools by Bob Cobbing and bill bissett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

Flong / Cobbing, Bob ; Upton, Lawrence., 2000

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Identifier: CC-45008-47184

Dates: 2000

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Flowerfall 1st Edition / Okai, John ; Cobbing B., 1969

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Identifier: CC-32898-34513

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Designated writers forum poets number twentyfive. The handwritten, loose sheet consists of book production notes by Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Flute Totems, 1981

Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (3 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491347]

Identifier: CC-17745-18114

Scope and Contents

This poem also appears in Cobbing's book, Northwest Territories. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Bob Cobbing

For Bill Butler / Wallrich, Larry, editor ; Wallrich A ; Mottram E ; MacBeth G ; Blazek D ; Congdon K ; Crozier A ; Dowden G ; Mayrocker F ; Cobbing B ; Hollo A ; Harwood L ; Horovitz M ; Kupferberg T ; Logue C ; Lucie-Smith E ; Matthews P ; McClure M ; Nuttall J ; Padgett R ; Berrigan T ; Pickard T ; Raworth T ; Rothenberg J ; Schjeldahl P ; Turnbull G ; Waldman A ; Williams J ; Benveniste A ; Vaughn P., 1970

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Identifier: CC-32313-33877

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This anthology was made to raise funds for Bill Butler's trial of obscenity after a raid by the Brighton police on his Unicorn bookshop. The poem print was done by Asa Benveniste and Paul Vaughn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

For Bill Keith / Cobbing, Bob., 1999

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Identifier: CC-45019-47195

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This book is based upon an envelope that Cobbing received from the African-American poet, Bill Keith. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

For D.I.A.S. / Cobbing, Bob., 1966

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Identifier: CC-27239-27733

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This work was exhibited in the Destruction In Art Symposium organized by Gustav Metzger and held in Prince Albert Hall in London in 1966. The event was a precursor to the art movement of Situationism. The work was composed by crumpling overtyped printed texts and printing them on a monoduplicator device as a single copy. These were then collaged onto a black painted panel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

For Jack Kerouac / Cobbing, Bob., 1973

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Identifier: CC-17727-18096

Dates: 1973

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

For Jack Kerouac / Cobbing, Bob., 1989

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Identifier: CC-17643-18011

Dates: 1989

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

For Jack Kerouac: Poems on His Death / Finch, Peter, editor ; Cobbing B ; Hollo A ; Finch P., 1987

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Identifier: CC-11325-11541

Scope and Contents

Second revised edition that was originally published as Second Aeon Booklet Series No.11 in 1970. The sound poem by Cobbing is a phonetic text using Kerouac's name. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

For Jackson Mac Low, 1975

Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (3 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491347]

Identifier: CC-17751-18120

Dates: 1975

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Bob Cobbing

For Poets / Dunning, Stephen, editor ; Eaton, M. Joe, editor ; Glass, Malcolm, editor ; Porter B ; Gross R ; Gomringer E ; Solt ME ; Cobbing B ; Williams E ; Kostelanetz R ; Patchen K ; Morgan E ; Frohman R., 1975

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Identifier: CC-15596-15923

Scope and Contents

This is a poetry textbook for secondary schools with the following sections: Found Poems, Image Poems, Speaker Poems, Concrete Poems, and Magic Poems. It includes questions for the reader regarding these poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)