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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6414 Collections and/or Records:

R, 1999

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-37597-39454
Scope and Contents

This print is housed in a brown paper portfolio with "House Press" and its logo silkscreened onto it along four other prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

R & K / Upton, Lawrence ; Panji E., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-40395-42366
Scope and Contents

This was published by Eter Panji who runs the Visual World Poetry press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

RACE: Still too Hot to Touch / Scher, Paula., 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-51328-72417
Scope and Contents

Paula Scher's drawing for an article by Matt Bai illustrates his essay about the racial implications of the firing of Shirley Sherrod, an African American Georgian bureaucrat. The drawing of the word RACE is scrawled, black and calligraphic over a barely visible red drawn RACE and horizontal lines that reflect the emotions of the political incident. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Radar: Paul De Vree. No.21 / Jan Van der Hoeven ; Renaat Ramon, editor ; Chopin H ; Dencker KP ; Perfetti M ; VanDerHoeven J ; Jespers HF ; Ramon R., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-03594-3659
Scope and Contents

This issue commemorates the death of Paul De Vree. The Sackners met Paul De Vree the year before this publication when he was in ill health. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

radiation onde structure energie / Garnier, Pierre., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-50390-71458
Scope and Contents

This poem was printed in Gaarmier's Prototypes (1965) and also reproduced in black and white in Garier's "Oeuvres poetiques 1 (1950-1968), page 227. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

rag & boneshop, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-44066-46182
Scope and Contents

This is an outstanding compilation of Birney's concrete and visual poems. Several poems are written in the linguistic style used by bill bissett. According to Adjala Bookshop, Birney inscribed (dated 1970) this first edition of the book to Mary Lou Toms who was the founding editor of "Books in Canada." The inscription is in the form of a concrete poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

rag & boneshop, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-21114-21523
Scope and Contents

This is an outstanding compilation of Birney's concrete and visual poems. Several poems are written in the linguistic style used by bill bissett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Rag-Time / Lora-Totino, Arrigo., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-60854-10003709
Scope and Contents

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Rain / Endwar., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-13399-13700
Scope and Contents

The word "rain" is repeated as a grid and gradually smudged by the xerox process from top to bottom of the sheet to appear like raindrops. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Random Modulator [1] / Finch, Peter., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12840-13127
Scope and Contents

Photograph depicts a sculptural plant-like object with each leaf having a single word, e.g., mouths, songs, faces, space, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Random Modulator [2] / Finch, Peter., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12841-13128
Scope and Contents

Photograph depicts a detail view of this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Random Sightings [Reprint], 1999

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Identifier: CC-33510-35159
Scope and Contents

Several poems are word portraits of artists that include Francis Bacon, William Baziotes, James Ensor, Paul Gauguin, Turner, and Robert Motherwell. The book also includes reprints of levy's introductory essay to 306, 5 Cleveland Poems, you murders with your indifference, and the "IN" Group. The cover was designed by Alan Horvath, the publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Random Sightings (The Egyptian Stroboscope Sessions), 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-52257-73379
Scope and Contents

Most of the copies of the first printing in an edition of 108 copies were confiscated by the Cleveland Police in the notorious raid of Jim Lowell's book store in 1966. The second printing by grass coin publishing in 1967 had a different cover, a modified title page & did not contain an index section. This third posthumous printing presented here is a reproduction of the original, the unique page from the second edition as well as the original manuscript pages. The cover silkscreen of this third printing was done by Mike Schaefer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000