Conventional non-fiction

Scope and Contents Barthes distinguishes erotica from pornographic photographs as follows. "The Photograph is unary when it emphatically transforms "reality" without doubling it, without making it vacillate (emphasis is a power of cohesion) : no duality, no indirection, no disturbance. The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, "unity" of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: "The subject," says one handbook for amateur photographers, "must be simple, free of useless accessories; this is called the Search for Unity." News photographs are very often unary (the unary photograph is not necessarily tranquil). In these images, no punctum: a certain shock-the literal can traumatize -but no disturbance; the photograph can "shout," not wound. These journalistic photographs are received (all at once) , perceived. I glance through them, I don't recall them; no detail (in some corner) ever interrupts my reading: I am interested in them (as I am interested in the...

Dates: 1981

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

Cancer In My Left Ball: Poems 1970-1972, 1973

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Identifier: CC-36319-38109

Scope and Contents

Cover was designed by Les Levine. The poems deal with the Vietnam war, homoeroticism, heteroeroticism, and Buddhist religion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

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

Cancer In My Left Ball: Poems 1970-1972 / Giorno, John ; Levine L., 1973

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Identifier: CC-36320-38110

Scope and Contents

The cover photographs were taken by Les Levine. The poems deal with the Vietnam war, homoeroticism, heteroeroticism, and Buddhist religion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

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

Cantar Del Huff; A Bilingual Edition, 2006

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Identifier: CC-47961-68984

Dates: 2006

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

Cantillations / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1974

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Identifier: CC-36631-38442

Dates: 1974

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

Cantillations / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1974

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Identifier: CC-36641-38452

Dates: 1974

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

Cantillations / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1974

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Identifier: CC-27768-28896

Scope and Contents

The visual poetic cover design and the four collages incorporting Hebraic texts reproduced in the book were done by Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

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