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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6407 Collections and/or Records:

cool poem (230364) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-44116-46240
Scope and Contents

'Cool' starting in the 1960s was a slang word for 'nice.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Copontrep Holddad / Geczi, Janos., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-10038-10237
Scope and Contents

This concrete poem is laid out as an abstract design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Copyright / Dudek-Durer, Andrzej., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-16011-16352
Scope and Contents

The image is an equilateral triangle formed from densely packed handwritten text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Coracao Cabeca (Heart Head) / De Campos, Augusto., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-15862-16194
Scope and Contents

Letter thanks Marvin Sackner for the Iliazd catalog De Campos received from him and then explains the multiple meanings of his new poem Cabeca. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Coral Reef Six: fish [ffffff...] / Nichol, bp., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-45319-47505
Scope and Contents

The image was taken from a color photograph made by jw curry. The stamp sheet with a 50 cent face value for each stamp was designed by Steven Spazuk and Jean-Francois Renaud. It was issued as Picture Postage 10003995 on May 31, 2005. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Cornponetonepome, 1963

 Item — Box 617: [Barcode: 31858072461027]
Identifier: CC-09799-9993
Scope and Contents

d.a. levy was the proprietor of Renegade Press. The title poem was set in the style of e.e. cummings. The poems entitled "Sound Poems" are actually tongue-twisters. This was Heckman's only book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

coRRida / Garnier, Ilse., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-50392-71460
Scope and Contents

The print of this original is reproduced in Ilse and Pierre Garnier's folder, "Prototypes: Textes Pour Un Architecture" (1965) that is also held by the Sackner Archive. It is also reproduced in GArnier's book "Oevres poetiques ! 1950-1968 page 219. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Cortado por la Misma Tijera, 1977

 Item — Box 614: [Barcode: 31858072461001]
Identifier: CC-31007-32466
Scope and Contents

Damaso Ogaz (1924-1990). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

CORTEXt, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-29033-30371
Scope and Contents

Johanna Drucker contributes an introductory essay on historic aspects of visual poetry which is carried forth to multimedia information systems of today. She also was responsible for the cover design. Karl Young contributes an afterword in which he focuses on mail art. He particularly addresses his own, ongoing Shadow Project that refers to the faint traces people left on nearby surfaces after they were vaporized by the atomic bombs in Japan. Young indicates that d.a. levy stands out as the major figure in the last three decades who left an indelible inprint on underground publications and visual poetry. He also adds that Tom Phillips is the most complete book artist. The Sackner Archive partially funded this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Cough / Sellers, Peter., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-02422-2462
Scope and Contents

A concrete poem which depicts "cough drops" theough the arrangement of letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Counter-Blast, 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-06778-6897
Scope and Contents

This book designed by Harley Parker is a contemporaneous parody of Wyndham Lewis' Vorticist magazine Blast. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Counter-Blast, 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-06791-6910
Scope and Contents

This is a parody of Wyndham Lewis' magazine "Blast," with its contents dealing with communication and the Information Age. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Country Life. No.29/July / Finlay IH., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28389-29596
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a stone sculpture in the garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay. It illustrates a statement of Saint Just, which is carved on nine rocks, "Paths to enlightenment in a garden of ideas." An essay within this magazine by Alan Powers entitled "The Sparta of the North," describes the poet's garden in Lanarkshire as one of the significant creations of our time. He states that Finlay recreated a poetic, classical garden as a place of beauty, and a journey of the mind; complex schemes of iconography provide entertainment and painted a moral. The essay is illustrated with nine colored photographs. The Sackners visited the garden with their daughter Sara in 1980. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996