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Conventional poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3938 Collections and/or Records:

The Fitzroy Poems, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-04672-4759
Scope and Contents

The poems for the most part are written in the Creole dialect of the Fitzroy region of Australia. Pi O's Christian name is Peter Oustabasides. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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 (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

The Flies. The Game Is Up. / Young, Karl., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-00146-151
Scope and Contents

With the exception of the choruses, the vocabulary for this poem is based upon the English equivalents of words and phrases in Jean-Paul Satre, " Les Mouches and Les jeux sont faits." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Forest of Childhood: Poems from Sweden / Smith, William Jay, editor ; Stroberg, Leif, translator., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-42608-44625
Dates: 1996
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)

The Funeral of KEITH ARMSTRONG 1950-2017, 2017

 Item — Box 318: [Barcode: 31858072490778]
Identifier: CC-62148-10004506
Dates: 2017
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

The Garden / Clark, Thomas A.; Marvell, Andrew., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-20665-21067
Scope and Contents

Clarks' poem, based on Marvell's lyrical poetry, was in turn used by Astrid Furnival as the text for her knitted, woolen work which is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984
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)

The Girt Arcane, 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-31594-33092
Dates: 1997
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)

The Girt Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1998

 Item — Folder 47: [Barcode: 31858072460045]
Identifier: CC-33585-35238
Scope and Contents

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor and china ink with a fine sable brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

The Glass Man Left Waltzing / Brannen, Jonathan., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-46308-49031
Scope and Contents

This poem was inspired by the centennial of Walt Whitman's death. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
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)

The God-Shed / Falleder, Arnold ; Burns G., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-10804-11014
Dates: 1991
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)

the golden aether / UU, David., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-48436-69463
Scope and Contents

This poem was reproduced in Dust No.16. -- 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: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Gosh of Goshes / Jack A. Hirschman., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09195-9376
Scope and Contents

This is an affectionate love poem with abstract painted embellishments in a book object that is an unfolding construction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

The Gospels Abridged: A 1990 Norton Family Christmas Greeting / Richard Kostelanetz., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-08160-8321
Scope and Contents

This is a four voice reading of the Gospels by ministers edited by Kostelanetz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Audiovisual Materials (unprocessed)

The Grass Poems / McGinniss, James., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-30743-32188
Scope and Contents

Wes Disney contributed several abstract, figurative, charcoal drawings that are reproduced in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
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)

The Great Cities of Antiquity / Colombo, John Robert., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-18443-18815
Dates: 1976
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)

The Green Chakre Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1997

 Item — Folder 47: [Barcode: 31858072460045]
Identifier: CC-31592-33090
Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

The Green Chakre Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1997

 Item — Folder 47: [Barcode: 31858072460045]
Identifier: CC-33580-35233
Scope and Contents

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

The Guardian Recto, 1979

 Item — Folder 2: [Barcode: 31858072459401]
Identifier: CC-13064-13359
Scope and Contents

This lengthy poem is illustrated by a surrealistic building. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

The Hand of the Poet: Poems and Papers in Manuscript / Phillips, Rodney, editor ; Carroll L ; cummings ee ; Ginsberg A ; Kunitz S ; Padgett R ; Olson C ; Snyder G ; Smith WJ ; Blake W ; Kerouac J., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-27706-28797
Scope and Contents The two-part exhibition "The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters" was organized by Rodney Phillips, curator of the Berg Collection, as part of the Centennial celebration of The New York Public Library. This catalogue is based on the exhibitions which presented writers from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries with drafts, letters, diaries. photographs and memorabilia in a personal and intimate setting. An essay by Dana Gioia, "The Prado of Poetry: A History of the Berg Collection" describes the background of Dr. Albert and Dr. Henry Berg and how their collection became one of the world's primary sources for literary research on American and English writers. In a scholarly introductory essay, "The Magical Value of Manuscripts," Dana Gioia writes, "The manuscript of a literary work became more than words; it represented a direct and unmediated physical link between viewer and author - a holy relic or shamanistic fetish...The scholarly alibi of libraries that...
Dates: 1997
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)

The Hanged Man: In Memory of Mitch Snyder / Jack A. Hirschman., 1990

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Identifier: CC-08909-9085
Scope and Contents

Poem in homage to the homeless advocate, Mitch Snyder, who had recently committed suicide, and the sweep of the homeless from Civic Center in San Francisco. As Hirschman states, this is an ongoing struggle, i.e., a half-mast flag hangs at City Hall (ironically and hypocritically) and thus his symbolic allusion at the poem's ending. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

The Harbour / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1971

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Identifier: CC-11940-12163
Scope and Contents

The photograph on the card was taken by Dianne Tammes. This poem was adapted from Finlay's publication, "A Mast of Hankies." -- 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: Various Formats(unprocessed)

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