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Found poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 896 Collections and/or Records:

Segredos d'Alma / De Campos, Augusto., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-14878-15191
Scope and Contents

This is a reproduction of a card dated 1926 by an earlier poet named Augusto de Campos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Selected Poems: Particular Accidents, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-22166-22588
Scope and Contents

Edited and with an introductory essay by Robin Blaser. Includes a poem portrait, "bp Nichol." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Sex Mistakes / Depew, Wally., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-51108-72190
Scope and Contents

This collage is made up of clippings about sex from newspapers or periodicals. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Sheila Natasha, James, and me / Sackner, Sara., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-59873-10002919
Scope and Contents

Found pages of text are interwoven on a visual background and stitched around the borders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Shipped Flat / Panhuyzen, Brian., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35166-36900
Scope and Contents

The lexicon of this piece was taken entirely from product names in the 1995 Ikea catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Should Sun Forever Shine / Young, Karl., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-38320-40217
Scope and Contents

The book, with typography apparently derived from rubberstamped letters, is based on fragments of early Latin writing. Some of the texts were originally found on bottles, boundary markers, etc. The rest was written by Latin writers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Signs / Porter, Bern., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-30807-32253
Scope and Contents

This books consists of signs and symbols found in American urban life. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Silver Flower Coo / Ford, Charles Henri., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-11463-11679
Scope and Contents

Each page is composed of text of varying size fonts and styles of "words and readymade phrases in magic paste-ups." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[Smith Paint Co.] / John Furnival., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-13289-13590
Scope and Contents

An image on this painter's cap found by Furnival during his sabbatical year at Anderson Foundation in Rosewell was re-invented on his screen "Fifty-one Towers of Babel" commissioned by the Sackner Archive. Specifically, the American eagle, perfectly rendered, holds a can of paint in one talon and a paint brush in the other with the found phrase from the cap "Paint-Up America" in a banner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984