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Conventional poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3936 Collections and/or Records:

Subduing Demons in America: Selected Poems 1962-2007, 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-49491-70537
Scope and Contents Marcus Boon, who edited this book writes, Giorno's late-1960s poems see him expanding the use of found materials, including pornographic and countercultural texts, as well as the use of repetition. Indeed, poems like "Capsule," "Give It to Me, Baby," and "Johnny Guitar" are among the most rock 'n' roll poems ever written, every bit as psychedelic and confrontational as The Stooges or Jefferson Airplane, and probably just as much the product of a wide-ranging armory of pharmaceuticals, which, as Giorno has repeatedly insisted, have the potential to open and expand the mind and bring bliss. Balling Buddha, a multicolor confection printed on pages in the six colors of the rainbow, rather than traditional black on white, introduced Giorno's signature split lines running down the center of each page-as a way of both reproducing the multitracking used in his sound poems and perturbing the linear flow of text on the page. Giorno observes that the split line "breaks the lineal flow....
Dates: 2008
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

Sublime / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-11105-11320
Scope and Contents

The poem in its first stanza reads, "Where the eagles circle in the darkness, the sons of the alps cross from precipace to precipace, fearlessly, on the flimsiest rope of bridges." The second stanza reads, "In the Place de la Revolution the man made mountain torrent clatters and clatters." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

Suck My Eyes! / Holsapple, Steven ; Faccinto, Victor ; Wagner, D.r.., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-53204-74356
Scope and Contents

This book is stored in a D.r. Wagner box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

Sud / Caruso, Luciano ; Caruso, Michele Maria., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33917-35589
Scope and Contents

The book mark is typical of Caruso's work. The poem is printed in letterpress and the unconventional art is the light blue handprint of Michele Maria, Luciano's daughter, with a calligraphic notation is black ink above it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Sulfur: Anglophone Poetry & Poetics Outside the US and UK. No.44/Spr / Marjorie Perloff, Jenny Penberthy, editors ; Blaser R ; Bok C ; McCaffery S ; Werschler-Henry D ; Perloff M ; Creeley R ; Barbour D ; Kinsella J ; Strang C., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-32296-33858
Scope and Contents

This issue deals with post-modern poetry in English. It is the penultimate isssue of Sulfur. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Sulfur. No.12 / Olson C ; MacLow J ; Rothenberg J ; Bernstein C ; Fisher A ; Perloff M., 1985

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Identifier: CC-02378-2418
Scope and Contents

Edited by Clayton Eshleman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Sulfur. No.34/Spr / Bernstein C., 1994

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Identifier: CC-02886-2930
Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Summer / Califia Books., 1989

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Identifier: CC-18652-19024
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Summer / Jaffe, James S. ; cummings ee ; Williams J ; Zukofsky L ; Creeley R ; Berman W ; Rauschenberg R ; Robinson A ; Ashbery J ; Beckett S ; Borges J ; Brainard J ; Kleist H ; Gysin B ; Patchen K ; Hamady W ; Pound E ; Williams J ; Phillips T ; Cinicolo-3 D., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48337-69362
Dates: 2008
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Summer (Supplement) / Califia Books., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-18650-19022
Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Sun Dog. No.2/Fall / Williams C., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-33840-35509
Scope and Contents

Includes concrete poem by Charlotte Williams who subsequently published an anthology of concrete poetry that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Sundial / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Lindsley, Kathleen., 1989

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Identifier: CC-11853-12074
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

Super Castings / Williams, Graham; Skelton, Clare., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-00630-644
Scope and Contents

This book is based upon a poem by Elizabeth Bewick (1780). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Supplement / Califia Books., 1990

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Identifier: CC-18653-19025
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Supplementary List: Poetry / Joseph the Provider ; Atwood M ; cummings ee ; Lamantia P ; Ondaatje M ; Jess ; Updike J., 1992

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Identifier: CC-08253-8415
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Supplementary List S / Joseph the Provider ; Bukowski C ; Burroughs WS ; Thomas D., 1982

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Identifier: CC-28049-29205
Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Supplication to the Himalayas, 1987 / Booth, Martin; Ballard, Richard., 1968

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Identifier: CC-23536-23981
Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Surcomi / Federman, Raymond, editor., 2003

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Identifier: CC-40709-42683
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a portrait drawing of Raymond Federman who wrote the texts for the book. This exhibition was seen by the Sackners in an alternative space in Luzerne, Switzerland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

Sure As Death / Rowe, Willyum., 1986

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Identifier: CC-29803-31182
Scope and Contents

Pages are either blank with a single phrase at the bottom or have a small black, tan & white image and caption centered in the upper half along with a phrase at the bottom of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Swans in Winter / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-12259-12483
Scope and Contents

This a Christmas card that reads, "Snow on the snow of their wings." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

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