Typewriter poetry

Silence: view. No.12 / Barry Flanagan, editor ; Flanagan B ; Themerson S., 1965

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Identifier: CC-39485-41441

Scope and Contents

Barry Flanagan contributed amorphous filled-in drawings to this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

silver beech and copper birch / Cameron, Charles., 2013

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Identifier: CC-58067-10001314

Scope and Contents

Composed on an IBM Selectric typewriter. Cameron comments that this work is both (obviously, as is) a visual poem and, (less obviously) the score for a choral prose reading aloud, in which an alchemical transformation between vegetative and metallic elements is accomplished as we transition from trees (higher voices) to metals (lower) -- and perhaps back up again. It has always struck me that a poet would be as interested in adjacent names (in this case, silver birch and copper beech) as in adjacent trees. If I was reporting a country walk, birch and oak might be the two trees that caught my eye -- but as a poet, birch and beech, with their corresponding metallic adjectives, would be far more resonant. This copy printed 2013 from a computerized version in HTML, late 1990s, after a typed original -- almost impossible to reproduce at this point -- back in the early '80s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2013

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Siobhan (Grimke 1837) / Nichols, Leslie., 2011

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Identifier: CC-58653-10001885

Scope and Contents The Letters on the Equality of the Sexes were written by Sarah Grimké in 1837. The portrait is of the Artist Siobhan Liddell. She was born in England and lives and works in New York. I met her whilel I was a resident at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont. Wikipedia: Sarah Moore Grimke (1792-1873) and Angelina Emily Grimke (1805-1879) known as the Grimké sisters, were 19th-century Southern American Quakers, educators and writers who were early advocates of abolitionism and women's rights. Angelina Grimké married abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld in May 1838, and changed her name to Angelina Grimké Weld. They were born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Sarah Moore Grimke was born on November 26, 1792 and Angelina Emily Grimke was born on February 20, 1805. Throughout their lives, they traveled throughout the North, lecturing about their first hand experiences with slavery on their family's plantation. Among the first American women to act publicly in social reform...

Dates: 2011

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Situacion Uno / Aberasturi, J.C.; Caceres, J.A.; Uribe, E.; Diez, Jokin; Millan, Fernando; Zabala, Francisco; Sanchez, J. Garcia; Campal JL., 1969

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Identifier: CC-26348-26815

Dates: 1969

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

[six spirals of m's] (100964) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-56374-59676

Scope and Contents

The spirals are typed over10 rows of 0's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

[Six Squares] (160565) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

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Identifier: CC-33762-35426

Scope and Contents

This work, typed in red and black inks, consists of six black squares laid out as an off-center diagonal grid 2 x 3. In each square, there are numbers, letters or @ characters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)