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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6414 Collections and/or Records:

for george dowden 2 (120664) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-56284-9999722
Scope and Contents

This poem is one of three that form a sequence. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

for george [dowden] 3 / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-56084-9999531
Scope and Contents

George in the title of this poem refers to the British poet, George Dowden. The handwritten leaflet reads, 'these 3 form a sequence & go together as a set.' The other two components are catalogued individually in the Sackner Archive, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

for george dowden (120664) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Dowden G., 1964

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Identifier: CC-09378-9564
Scope and Contents

George Dowden in the title of this poem refers to the British poet. Moire effects in this poem were produced by overtyping tight grids of letters. This work was reproduced in the Dom Sylvester houedard book edited by Nicola Simpson, "Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter: The Life and Work of Dom Sylvester Houedard" and is stored in the binder labeled DSH London 2012. This poem is one of three that form a sequence. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

for li (281167) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56272-59698
Scope and Contents

The poem reads lisson and refers to Nicholas Logsdale's Lisson Gallery in London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

For Pas-Seende Berndt Pettersons Collage Och Bokstavskonst, 2012

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Identifier: CC-57999-10001259
Scope and Contents

This book is a compendium of the outstanding artistic work of Berndt Petterson whose work should be better known to a world wide artistic audience. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

For Poets / Dunning, Stephen, editor ; Eaton, M. Joe, editor ; Glass, Malcolm, editor ; Porter B ; Gross R ; Gomringer E ; Solt ME ; Cobbing B ; Williams E ; Kostelanetz R ; Patchen K ; Morgan E ; Frohman R., 1975

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Identifier: CC-15596-15923
Scope and Contents

This is a poetry textbook for secondary schools with the following sections: Found Poems, Image Poems, Speaker Poems, Concrete Poems, and Magic Poems. It includes questions for the reader regarding these poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

For the record /For Fiona Beckett / Hart, David., 1987

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Identifier: CC-59899-10002952
Scope and Contents

Three pages wee scanned and cleaned up with Photoshop and stored in binder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

for whom the bell tolls / Ward, John Powell., 1975

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Identifier: CC-57983-10001243
Scope and Contents

The poem is typed on red stock paper and is based upon John Donne's sermon with the noted paragraph that reads, 'No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

for whom the bell tolls / Ward, John Powell., 1975

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Identifier: CC-57986-10001246
Scope and Contents

The poem is typed on white stock paper (another copy is on red stock paper) and is based upon John Donne's sermon with the noted paragraph that reads, 'No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

[Forgive Verses] / Basin, Ilya., 1991

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Identifier: CC-23563-24008
Scope and Contents

The text is written in several calligraphic styles. This book is based upon the poems by Igor Vishnevsky -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Formula lyubzola / Segay, Serge; Mayakovsky V., 1973

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Identifier: CC-50327-71395
Scope and Contents

This is a print from the book "Sobukvy radi yot." In the circle are written the words, "lyublyu (I love) which Mayakovsky had inscribed in a similar way on the gold rings he & Lily Brick wore." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Forum Book Art 20th edition / Bartkowiak, Heinz Stefan, editor ; Rehfeldt R ; Hacker KF ; Breuer T ; Enke W., 2002 - 2003

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Identifier: CC-60354-10003329
Scope and Contents

This is a compendium of contemporary prints, artist books, portfolios, and book objects mainly from Germany but also from England and America. Includes profit and non-profit centers. Well illustrated with examples from the various presses. Includes works of several presses that are also held by the Sackner Archive. It includes nine pages of artists' prints, silkscreen and letterpress. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002 - 2003

Forum. No.3/Jul., 1983

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Identifier: CC-12778-13049
Scope and Contents

A journal for the teacher of English outside the United States. The cover depicts letters "raining on an umbrella." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983