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Found poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 896 Collections and/or Records:

Thank You Seeds / Anonymous., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-43774-45870
Scope and Contents

The printed envelope repeatedly reads, thank you gracias danke grazie merci thank you. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

[The Ancient Mesopotamians] / Collins, Patricia., 2001

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Identifier: CC-36569-38371
Scope and Contents

The quotation from "A History of Writing" refers to the sacred footsteps of birds. The knots resemble those footsteps. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Beauty in Breathing / Sackner, Marvin; Sackner, Ruth., 1992

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Identifier: CC-02455-2495
Scope and Contents

The collage was made to commemorate The Beauty in Breathing exhibition held in the Miami Beach Convention Center at the Annual Meeting of the American Thoracic Society/American Lung Association. It consisted of clippings from newspapers and magazines dealing with phrases utilizing the words, breath, breathe and breathing mounted on papercard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Beauty in Breathing / Sackner, Marvin; Sackner, Ruth., 1992

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Identifier: CC-02456-2496
Scope and Contents

This print was made to commemorate The Beauty in Breathing exhibition held in the Miami Beach Convention Center at the Annual Meeting of the American Thoracic Society/American Lung Association. It consisted of clippings from newspapers and magazines dealing with phrases utilizing the words, breath, breathe and breathing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Beauty in Breathing / Sackner, Marvin; Sackner, Ruth., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-02457-2497
Scope and Contents

This print was made to commemorate The Beauty in Breathing exhibition held in the Miami Beach Convention Center at the Annual Meeting of the American Thoracic Society/American Lung Association. It consisted of clippings from newspapers and magazines dealing with phrases utilizing the words, breath, breathe and breathing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Beauty in Breathing / Sackner, Marvin; Sackner, Ruth., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-02458-2498
Scope and Contents

This print was made to commemorate The Beauty in Breathing exhibition held in the Miami Beach Convention Center at the Annual Meeting of the American Thoracic Society/American Lung Association. It consisted of clippings from newspapers and magazines dealing with phrases utilizing the words, breath, breathe and breathing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

the Bridge / Sackner, Sara., 1979

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Identifier: CC-59866-10002923
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

The Collages of Robert M. Swedroe / Swedrow, Robert M.., 2002

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Identifier: CC-38275-40171
Scope and Contents

Reproductions of collages made by Swedroe from 1963 to 1973 arranged thematically e.g.; memorabilia, sports, adult fantasy, business, child fantasy and religion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

The Deep Red-Brown / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1995

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Identifier: CC-12990-13282
Scope and Contents

Finlay writes that the statement is "A likely fragment of Archilochos suggested by a sentence in Basil Greenhill's "Sailing For A Living." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Doctor at Home and Nurse's GuideBook, 1997

 Item — Box 212: [Barcode: 31858072459245]
Identifier: CC-29700-31075
Scope and Contents

The jars simulate anatomic specimen containers. The box is entirely collaged both on its outside and inside with texts from an old medical dictionary or compendium of medical terms. This book object was Collins' response to Marvin Sackner's sending her a copy of the exhibition catalogue, "The Beauty in Breathing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

The Exorcism of Page Thirteen / Burtner, Caryl., 1993

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Identifier: CC-24224-24676
Scope and Contents

Burtner cut the page number and part of the text from page 13 of every book in her library and placed the small squares into randomly selected groupings, 48 to a page to form fortuitous poems and coincidences of meaning. The Sackner Archive also holds an original page from this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The First Ache / Dettmer, Brian; Schierlitz, Tom., 2008

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Identifier: CC-47606-68618
Scope and Contents

Dettmer made the artist book, Schierlitz was the photographer and the author of this article about the beginning of pain is Annie Murphy Paul. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008