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Conventional poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3936 Collections and/or Records:

Wharton Hood: Strip-Mining Traditional Haiku / curry, jw; Houedard DS; Nichol bp; Basho; Duggan MB; Gorman L., 1988

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Identifier: CC-20772-21177
Scope and Contents

This piece was published in Rampike Vol.6 No.1. curry includes 5 handwritten Haiku poems by Hood (collaged onto pages) written as varients in House of Cards, Runaway Spoon & form the basis for curry's critical text. In a letter to the Sackners, curry notes that Jirgins (editor Rampike) "fucked it up by typesetting all the poems (including the bp Single letter translation!)(i'd provided him with a photocopy of bp's drawn version), rendering my discussion of Hood's handwriting superfluous..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

What are You Doing? / curry, jw., 1983

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Identifier: CC-19744-20131
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This was submitted for publication in NRG. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

What Are You Doing? / levy, d.a.., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48755-69789
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The cover depicts a detail of a painting entitled "Non-Sectarian Crucifixion," a work held by the Sackner Archive. This work is also designated as Card 13 from "Stories from the Flats." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

What Are You Doing? / levy, d.a.., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48757-69791
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The cover depicts a detail of a painting entitled "Non-Sectarian Crucifixion," a work held by the Sackner Archive. This numbered work is also designated as Card 13 from "Stories from the Flats." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

What / bissett, bill., 1974

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Identifier: CC-20949-21358
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The typewriter derived prints in this publication are printed on different weight and colored papers. A critical analysis of these poems was written by jw curry in an unpublished manuscript, What about what (1985). He pointed out that permutation of what to 'twhat or twat' depicted "by typewriter drawings of female genitalia, more 'pedals uv yr luv' opening into the fullness of an upper-cased WHAT..." Atwha signifies 'a trois,' depicted by 2 sexual images, one a photograph, the other a typed poem with x's & o's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

what dyou mean poetrys like bed? (231161) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1961

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Identifier: CC-57851-10001102
Scope and Contents This is a great poem about the far reaching impact of poetry.nThe Aramaic words 'maran atha' are written towars the end of the poem followed by the repeated phrase 'god come. Wikpedia: 'If one chooses to split the two words as מרנא תא (maranâ thâ), a vocative concept with an imperative verb, then it can be translated as a command to the Lord to come. On the other hand, if one decides that the two words מרן אתא (maran 'athâ), a possessive "Our Lord" and a perfect/preterite verb "has come," are actually more warranted, then it would be seen as a credal expression. This interpretation, "Our Lord has come," is supported by what appears to be an equivalent of this in the early credal acclamation found in the biblical books of Romans 10:9 and 1 Corinthians 12:3, "Jesus is Lord." In general, the recent interpretation has been to select the command option ("Come, Lord!"), changing older decisions to follow the preterite option ("Our Lord has come") as found in the ancient...
Dates: 1961

What featured Writer? George Swede / curry, jw; Swede G., 1985

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Identifier: CC-20629-21031
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This article appeared in What #2 as an introduction to Swede's work in the magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

What the Hell Pamphlet Series, The: About the Fabulous Sneeze. No.6 / Louis Phillips., 1982

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Identifier: CC-00358-366
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Contains facts and superstitions about sneezing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

What the President Will Say and Do!! / Gins, Madeline., 1984

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Identifier: CC-10209-10410
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Includes a tongue-in-cheek essay, "How to Breathe," containing such information as "Breathed. History was. Breathing will be found to be a prerequisite for 1.Getting a license, 2.Finding a job, 3.Having children, 4.Starting a revolution, 5.Being an idiot, 6.Laughing." Anxious? No psychiatrist in the country would touch your case unless he/she were sure (assured?) that you were breathing." Gins also gives directions for a performance involving controlled breathing in this essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Wheel, The / H. G. Martens, editor ; Phillips T ; Rudkin D., 1957 - 1958

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Identifier: CC-00480-492
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Tom Philllips contributed seven drawings to this issue while he was a student at St. Catherine's College at Oxford University. He also contibuted a poem entitled "A Painter's Reckoning". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957 - 1958