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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6414 Collections and/or Records:

Seeing Things / Froman, Robert., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-11764-11983
Scope and Contents

Froman defines seeing poems (concrete poems) as the outline of a light bulb which "...happens when when words take a shape that helps them to turn on a light in someone's mind." A few poems relating to breathing are included in the book such as "Superstink." This concrete poem depicts a bus at a stop, a start-up, followed by an engine backfire with a big cloud of pollutants released into the atmosphere causing a cacophony of cough, gasp, choke, sneeze, snuffle etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Seeing Voices / Mancini, Donato., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-49552-70600
Scope and Contents

The text was produced from conversations overheard in an undisclosed area. As such, it is akin to Martin Wilner'a artist books that record text and images from passengers on the NY subway trains. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Seeing Your Meaning: Concrete Poetry in Language and Education 2nd Edition / Cook, Stanley., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-19825-20212
Scope and Contents

The letter is addressed to Eugen Gomringer. Cook analyzes the impact of concrete poetry on the sensibilities of children. This is the second edition of the book first published in 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Seeing Your Meaning: Concrete Poetry in Language and Education / Cook, Stanley., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-19824-20211
Scope and Contents

Cook analyzes the impact of concrete poetry on the sensibilities of children. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Sehgange, 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-37410-39263
Scope and Contents

This work is photographically reproduced in Hirsal & Grogerova's "Experimentalni Poezie," page 221, in Novisimo Poesia/69, and in Schritte No.8 1964. In the latter, the image is oriented at a 180 degrees difference from the original. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Sehtexte und Kommentare, 1964

 Item — Box 614: [Barcode: 31858072461001]
Identifier: CC-37401-39254
Scope and Contents

The brochure depicts six typewriter poems, the first series of four of six circular concrete poems (sehtexte) 1960-1961 and the second series of six of 14 concrete poems, 1962-1963. The loose sheet present in one of the copies is an announcement for Kriwet's book, "durch die runse..." published as schritte No.10. The latter is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Sei F (This F-) / Miroshnychenko, Mykola., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-29930-31321
Scope and Contents

This poem is dated 25.04.1976. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Selected Books and Graphics List N-89 / Black Sun Books., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-22540-22965
Scope and Contents

Advertises sale of J. Miro's and A. De Monluc's "Le Courtisan Grotesque." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Selected Poems, 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-11338-11554
Scope and Contents

Peter Finch introduces his collected works by tracing those poets who influenced him. He writes that "concrete poetry does not use language for the recollection of emotion in tranquility but as the material of the poem itself." The book includes a poem, "Breath (after Philip Glass)," which repetitively utilizes the phrases, "the breath came and the breath went," as an incessant background rhythm for the main text in an analogous way that Philip Glass presents his music compositions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987