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Found poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 896 Collections and/or Records:

Lista/List / Rosen, Kay., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-35047-36772
Scope and Contents

Only the cover of this book by Fernando De Rojas of a classic drama has been appropriated by Rosen. On the top half of the cover, there is a list of words in Spanish and on the bottom half, their English counterparts. The content seems like automatic writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

L'Unite Hermetique / Pohlmann, Andreas ; Pohlmann, Mathias., 1992

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Identifier: CC-04481-4566
Scope and Contents

The book is printed from cheap paper retrieved from East Germany when it was a Communist state. Many of the images are taken from shipping boxes and labels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Made in Germany / Luh, Wolfgang., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-34843-36552
Scope and Contents

The Sackner "Archiv of Visual Poetry, Miami Beach" is listed twice as holding work by Luh. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Make Perhaps This Out Sense If Can You / Cobbing, Bob., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-17716-18085
Scope and Contents

The title sentence first was printed in the Kilburn Times and was also the title of an exhibition curated by Mathew Abess at the University of Pennsylvania,. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Man?, 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-06064-6178
Scope and Contents

This collage profile of a stylized human body alludes to multiple physical malfunctions from "bald" to "cough" to "corns" clipped from newspaper ads. The figure is standing on a base which states "Under capitalism...medicine is a commodity and a business. Disease is a commodity of capitalism. Under capitalism, the businesses and institions of capitalism need disease as merchandise to do business with, to make money, to sell medicine. Fidel Castro - January 8, 1969." This poem was published in Mayer's "earmouth" 1972 and in Delo, 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968