bpNichol, 1944-1988

Selected Organs is a part of a larger autobiography entitled Organ Music. The basic idea of these prose pieces was to write an autobiography from a different direction concentrating on the parts of the body. All stories in this autobiography are true and told in a specific style borrowed from the oral story-telling methods of Nichol's grandmother. Nichol also drew the body part for each section. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

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)

Selected Poems: Beyond Even Faithful Legends, 1980

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Identifier: CC-22196-22618

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Cover painting by bissett. Len Early wrote the introduction to this selection of bissett's poems from 1962-1976. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Selected Poems: Particular Accidents, 1980

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Identifier: CC-22166-22588

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Edited and with an introductory essay by Robin Blaser. Includes a poem portrait, "bp Nichol." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

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

Sense(d)/Visuals (1968-86) / Basmajian, Shaunt; Nichol bp; Gomringer E., 1986

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Identifier: CC-22712-23147

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All these works are catalogued individually. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

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)

Sensory Deprivation / Dream Poetics / Lopes, Damian ; UU D ; Nichol bp ; Bradley Df., 2000

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Identifier: CC-37034-38874

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Most of the pages in this book depict a visual or concrete poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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)

Sharp Facts: Some Selections from Translating Translating Apollinaire 26 / Nichol, bp., 1980

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Identifier: CC-05561-5668

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Nichol demonstrates "copying machine disintegrative tendencies" by repeatedly putting the same text through four different photocopying machines. The text breaks down until it gradually disappears, so that "the machine is the message." The process is the same as that employed by Emmett Williams in a series of poems that are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

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)

Silence / Caruso, Barbara ; Nichol bp., 1990

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Identifier: CC-17045-17401

Dates: 1990

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)

Singing Hands Series: Cold Mountain. No.3 / bp Nichol., 1966

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Identifier: CC-36850-38683

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According to Nelson Ball, 200 copies were printed but 120 copies were accidently destroyed. -- 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: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Singing Hands Series: Scraptures: Second Sequence. No.1 / bp Nichol ; bissett b., 1965

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Identifier: CC-36855-38688

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This is Nichol's second book in which he prints wordplay mainly on the word "beware." The cover was designed by bill bissett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

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