Conventional non-fiction

Empty Words: Writings '73-'78 / Cage, John ; Joyce J ; Knowles A., 1979

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Identifier: CC-16644-16998

Scope and Contents

The drawings in the margins accompanying "Empty Words" and the neologisms of the text are reminiscent of Jake Berry's style of writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

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)

Endless Threshold / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1992

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Identifier: CC-09330-9516

Scope and Contents

Includes poem relating to Marvin Sackner (page 73), "I Steal" that begins with the following passage: Scavaging's the way I make my buck. Pick my way thru the garbage of the rich for cardboard, fabric-sampler folders, odd papers, plastics. Paint over them. Send them to a man who collects things like that. Just enough to pay for my hotel pad. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

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)

Energy Crisis Poems / sigmund, r.j., aka rjs ; Kryss TL ; Dominique., 1974

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Identifier: CC-02986-3031

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The cover was designed by Tom L. Kryss. The three photocopied drawings within the book were done by Dominique. -- 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)

Enough of the Hills and Woods / Dezso, Andrea., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47510-68508

Scope and Contents

Andrea Dezso has illustrated this article about family holiday communcations with reproductions of stitching of families, airplanes, Christmas trees, computers and cars. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

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)

Epigramititis: 118 Living American Poets / Johnson, Kent, editor ; Kunitz S ; Simic C ; Antin D ; Graham J ; Andrews B ; Bernstein C ; Lehman D ; Ashbery J ; Koch K ; MacLow J ; Howe S ; Beer J ; Davis J ; Lauterbach A ; Whalen P ; Lin T ; Sondheim A ; Daniels C ; Eshleman C ; Palmer M ; Bly R ; Lifshin L ; Stefans BK ; Merwin W ; Joris P ; Creeley R ; Padgett R ; Evans S ; McCord H ; Davies A ; Silliman R ; Elmslie K ; Yau J ; Alexander W ; Grenier R ; Debrot J ; Codrescu A ; Baraka A ; Watten B ; Damon M ; Smith R ; Bromige D ; Hejinian L ; Alexander C ; Robinson A ; Napora J ; Wieners J ; Dworkin C ; Howe F ; Featherstone D ; Luoma B ; Wakoski D ; Snyder G ; DiPalma R ; Lazer H ; Edson R ; Young D ; Scalapino L., 2004

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Identifier: CC-50164-71228

Scope and Contents An Epigram is a brief, clever, and usually memorable statement. Derived from the Greek: "to write on - inscribe"[1], the literary device has been employed for over two millennia. The Greek tradition of epigrams began as poems inscribed on votive offerings at sanctuaries "” including statues of athletes "” and on funerary monuments, for example "Go tell it to the Spartans, passer-by"¦". These original epigrams did the same job as a short prose text might have done, but in verse. Epigram became a literary genre in the Hellenistic period, probably developing out of scholarly collections of inscriptional epigrams. Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between 'epigram' and 'elegy' is sometimes indistinct (they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise. Many of the...

Dates: 2004

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)

Erlangen 1686-1986 / Meidinger-Geise, Inge, editor., 1986

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Identifier: CC-06368-6485

Scope and Contents

Reproduces pages of Dencker's book, Walter Donat's Gedicht. Signed with holographic letter from Dencker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

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)

Escape Victim and Other Poems, 1979

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Identifier: CC-62502-47655

Dates: 1979

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)

Este protervo zas, 1969

Item — Box 612: [Barcode: 31858072460987]

Identifier: CC-05767-5875

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 (processed) / Fernando Millán

Este protervo zas, 2nd edition, 2004

Item — Box 612: [Barcode: 31858072460987]

Identifier: CC-49579-70627

Scope and Contents

The 1st edition was published in 1969 and is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

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

Ethernity / Brannen, Jonathan ; Raphael D., 1989

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Identifier: CC-21540-21951

Scope and Contents

Introduction by Dan Raphael. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

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)

Euphorbia / Levine, Anne-Marie ; Asher, Elise., 1994

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Identifier: CC-37338-39190

Scope and Contents

Elise Asher contributed a surrealistic landscape handcolored print of a glass filled with white sand, a sun dial with the moon in the heaven. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

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)

Evoba: The Investigations Meditations 1976-78, 1987

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Identifier: CC-33221-34851

Dates: 1987

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)

Exiles / Foley, Jack ; Berry J ; Baudelaire C., 1996

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Identifier: CC-33067-34692

Scope and Contents

The reading of the tape was performed by Jack and Adelle Foley. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

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)

Exilio-Globo-Ejercito (a grito) / Toscano, Rodrigo ; Howe W., 2009

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Identifier: CC-52459-73585

Scope and Contents

This is the 27th book of the North American Chapbook series. It was designed by William and L.R. Howe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

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)

Experioddicist, The. No.8/Mar / Joe Speer., 1995

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Identifier: CC-14299-14607

Scope and Contents

Edited by Jake Berry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

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)

Exquisite Corpse. No.1-4/Jan-Apr., 1990

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Identifier: CC-13952-14257

Dates: 1990

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)

Exquisite Corpse. No.4/Apr / Williams J ; Kostelanetz R ; Gerlovina R ; Bakhchanyan V ; Dawson F ; Sukenick R ; Myers Gjr., 1983

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Identifier: CC-14025-14330

Scope and Contents

Jonathan Williams' book of poetry, "The Magpie's Bagpipe" is reviewed by Philip Balla who creates a vivid description of Williams' poetic life style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

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)