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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6414 Collections and/or Records:

Horizont, 1978

 Item — Box 134: [Barcode: 31858072457850]
Identifier: CC-10648-10857
Scope and Contents

The poem is slanted downward to the right and translates as "My Horizon." Designated as blatt 55.78. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Hortexte Radiotexts / Kriwet, Ferdinand., 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-54670-990110
Scope and Contents

These records include the following performances, Apollo Amerika, Campaign, Radioball, Ball, Voice of America and Radio. The book accompanying the images provides illustrations of Kriwet's working methods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Hot Bird Mfg: 10 Works. No.1/Nov / Elizabeth DiPalma., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-09604-9795
Scope and Contents

Edited by Ray DiPalma. The large type faced letters produce a visual appearance similar to the letter poems of Clemente Padin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Hot Bird Mfg: Horror Vacui. No.18/Apr / Doug Lang ; Khlebnikov V., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09152-9333
Scope and Contents

Edited by Ray DiPalma. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Hour Glass Elm / Brilliant, Alan., 1979

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Identifier: CC-22142-22564
Scope and Contents

Also designated Unicorn Folded Broadside Series One, No.10. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Housepress Openpalm: Finger Lakes. No.4 / Joel Bettridge., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-36506-38307
Scope and Contents

This poem was excerpted from "A Walk in the Park." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Housepress Spur: 3 bashos for n.m. hennessy. No.3/Apr / Derek Beaulieu., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32376-33945
Scope and Contents

This is a variation of a haiku poem popularized by Dom Sylvester Houedard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Housepress Spur: ripples. No.4 / Derek Beaulieu., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-36684-38498
Scope and Contents

Beauleau composed an adaptation of Bosho's haiku, pond - frog - plop, by substituting several letters of this poem with parentheses. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Housepress Spur: ripples. No.4/Apr / Derek Beaulieu ; curry jw., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-32375-33944
Scope and Contents

This is a variation of a haiku poem popularized by Dom Sylvester Houedard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

hovedard / veda - hoard / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55779-556677
Scope and Contents

The verso depicts dsh's handwriting in the u.r. corner of the title "hovedard / veda - hoard" where the v stands for u. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

How to Spell the Alphabet / Auerbach, Tauba., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-46485-49214
Scope and Contents Amazon.com description: How arbitrary are the marks, analog and digital, used to express language, and where do they begin to muck it all up? This first book from Tauba Auerbach, Yes and Not Yes features over 20 new paintings and drawings that spring from those questions. They offer an excellent if roundabout answer: while letters are largely arbitrary, they are rich with abstract beauty and conceptual depth. In razor-sharp execution--which reveals her training as a sign painter--Auerbach's works on panel and paper update the abstract conceptual tradition, while retaining its intellectual rigor. Uppercase Insides and Numeral Insides recall Russian Suprematism, and, upon further contemplation, turn out to be just what their titles call them. Works based on signal flags and the Ugaritic Alphabet--an extinct language from Syria, 1300 B.C.--confirm that puzzlement is part of the desired effect here. Where direct exchange between sign and meaning is impossible, the beauty of the symbol...
Dates: 2006

How Will One Hide / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-12101-12325
Scope and Contents

The shape of this poem is a simplified labyrinth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986