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Typewriter poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1791 Collections and/or Records:

Leon Van Essche / Van Essche, Leon ; Rudi Horemans, curator., 1981

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Identifier: CC-56307-9999732
Scope and Contents

The prints include three pages of a non-identified book with cancellations of the text. The artist was born in 1919 and died in 1993. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Les Cercles de Fees, 1984

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Chopin, Henri: [Barcode: 31858072491297]
Identifier: CC-18704-19077
Scope and Contents

The number 84 was typed repetitively to achieve the desired visual effect. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Les Fleurs du Mal / Hirsal, Josef; Grogerova, Bohumila., 1962 - 1992

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Identifier: CC-09395-9581
Scope and Contents

This poem was first composed in 1962. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1962 - 1992

Les Grands Voyages / Cepl, Gernot., 1994

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Identifier: CC-27422-28467
Scope and Contents

This page is typed as a close packed grid over the text and blank spaces of a printed page. In the center of the page, the shift to red ink typing gives an abstract appearance to the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Les Portes Ouvertes Ouvertement, 2001

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Identifier: CC-40232-42203
Scope and Contents

This book deals with Chopin's diary notes on the making of his sound poems. He mentions meeting the Sackners on his visit to Miami Beach in 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Les Riches Heures de l'Alphabet [Deluxe Edition] / Chopin, Henri ; Zumthor, Paul., 1992

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Identifier: CC-20399-20796
Scope and Contents

The suite of 12 original printed typewriter poems by Chopin utilizes one letter each to represent the first letter of Ruth Ruth Marvin Marvin Sackner Sackner Concrete Concrete Visual Visual Poetry Poetry. Large letters in these poems appear to be sikscreen additions. In the book, there is a a usual Chopin typewriter poem reproduced for each letter, number, and signed on the keyboard. Paul Zumthor contributed a handwritten poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Les Tapuscrits: Poemes-Partitions Biopsies Passe-Partout / Heidsieck, Bernard ; Bobillot JP ; Mangion E ; Chaton AJ ; Pound E ; Stein G ; Miller H ; Spatola A ; Artaud A ; Gysin B ; Dufrene F ; Schwitters K ; Eluard P ; Hausmann R ; Colette ; Arp J ; Perse SJ ; Brecht B ; Nichol bp ; cummings ee ; Neruda P ; Olson C ; Marinetti FT ; Viccinelli P ; Schmidt A ; Aragon L ; Luca G ; Duke JH., 2013

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Identifier: CC-59678-10002737
Scope and Contents Heidsieck died on November 22, 2014.Internet: This book reproduces all of Heidsiecks typewritings of sound poems from 1955-1995. It consists of 120 "scores" reproduced in facsimile, revealing for the first time writing in its visual and graphic dimension that precedes and determines the public reading.This publication brings together typescripts of poems, music, and biopsies of Passe-Partout, texts designed mostly to be played and "charge for the year" in public, all scanned one by one in order to restore the most literal way possible. This plentiful material emerges a whole long life readings and performances, festivals and meetings, a life to imagine and build a modern, vibrant poetry that continues to mark an entire generation of young artists. "What I always want is to offer the opportunity to the listener / viewer to find a focal point and visual fixation. This seems to me essential. Without going so far away from happening, I always include a minimum of action so that the...
Dates: 2013

[Letter Picture 5 Lines] / Sharkey, John J.., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56707-10000093
Scope and Contents

Five lines made with dashes cross over a dense block of typed capital letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Letter Piece, 1990

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Be-Bir: [Barcode: 31858072491172]
Identifier: CC-23892-24340

Letter Squares / McCarthy, Cavan., 1967

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Identifier: CC-55774-9999309
Scope and Contents

Jim Burns (1936-) is a British poet known for poetry published on small presses. The Letter-Squares were five rubberstamps each containing 100 vowels of typewriter-style type. They were created by Cavan McCarthy for participants in poetry readings to produce their own visual designs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Letter to chas dear [Cameron]] (190964) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Weaver M; Finlay IH; Horovitz M; Raworth T; Sharkey JJ., 1964

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Identifier: CC-57879-10001130
Scope and Contents

The letter is addressed to chas dear.The first paragraph urges Cameron to get DSH his proper Olivetti because "it is DESPARATE to use this fucking twr i just cant FEEL it...bring me SPARE OLIVETTI to use instead of this GHASTLY olympia that isn't MADE for typestracting ==you must TELL them who i mean how my LIFE is spent glorifying their mechanisms." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

[Letter to david w.............[etc] Harris beginning (i hope my sens of humor isnt toooooooo oooooooo oooooooo oooooooo annoying)] / levy, d.a.; Nichol bp., 1967

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Identifier: CC-33538-35188
Scope and Contents

This letter deals with poems that levy has submitted for publication. He also requests that Harris contact bp Nichol for acceptance of these poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Letter to Jack Furnival wishing him recovery from his illness] (2209) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1975

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Identifier: CC-09838-10032
Scope and Contents

This letter is contained within an envelope collaged onto a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

[Letter to John and Wendy Sharkey: angelic angels & things] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Chopin H; Weaver M; Cameron C; Shoumatoff N., 1964

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Identifier: CC-55798-58902
Scope and Contents

dsh mentions henri chopin and mlke weaver (whom he does not know). He writes about his first meeting with charles cameron. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Letter to mdc - carlobenito (160865) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

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Identifier: CC-57889-10001139
Scope and Contents

This letter to Charles Cameron asks him many questions about poetic productions and descriptions of publsihed works for example, "edwrights pondplop design for frog just come is ultrafine." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Letter to mdc [my dear charles] (070665) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

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Identifier: CC-57887-10001137
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This letter to Charles Cameron compliments the poetry reading as DSH writes " i must send a wee note to say how MI-RI-FIC yesterday was EVerybody was enraptured it cldnt have been greater success -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965