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Conventional non-fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1854 Collections and/or Records:

New Acquisitions Bulletin / Benjamins, John ; Luiggi, Philippe ; Lewis WP ; Johnson R ; Jess ; Herms G ; Berman W ; Altmann R ; Isou I ; Sabatier R ; Satie A ; Spacagna J ; Albert-Birot P ; Lemaitre M., 1994

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Identifier: CC-23957-24405
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: Catalogs (unprocessed)

New Impressions of Africa / Roussel, Raymond ; Mark Ford, translator., 2011

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Identifier: CC-52538-73667
Scope and Contents The rhyming of this poem is highly complex as explained by Mark Ford, the translator. Amazon.com: Poet, novelist, playwright, and chess enthusiast, Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) was one of the French belle epoque's most compelling literary figures. During his lifetime, Roussel's work was vociferously championed by the surrealists, but never achieved the widespread acclaim for which he yearned. New Impressions of Africa is undoubtedly Roussel's most extraordinary work. Since its publication in 1932, this weird and wonderful poem has slowly gained cult status, and its admirers have included Salvador Dalì--who dubbed it the most "ungraspably poetic" work of the era--Andre Breton, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, Kenneth Koch, and John Ashbery. Roussel began writing New Impressions of Africa in 1915 while serving in the French Army during the First World War and it took him seventeen years to complete. "It is hard to believe the immense amount of time composition of this...
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: Books (unprocessed)

New & Selected Poems / Thalia., 1999

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Identifier: CC-41739-43731
Scope and Contents

There is a great deal of resemblance in Thalia's conventional poetic style to that of Jas Duke. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
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)

New & Selected Things Taking Place / Swenson, May., 1978

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Identifier: CC-31107-32573
Scope and Contents

This is an anthology of Swenson's poems. New poems comprise the first 78 pages. Other poems are reprinted from Swenson's books, Iconographs, Half Sun Half Sleep, To Mix with Time, A Cage of Spines, and Another Animal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978
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)

New & Selected Things Taking Place / Swenson, May., 1978

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Identifier: CC-31108-32574
Scope and Contents

This is an anthology of Swenson's poems. New poems comprise the first 78 pages. Other poems are reprinted from Swenson's books, Iconographs, Half Sun Half Sleep, To Mix with Time, A Cage of Spines, and Another Animal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978
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)

New Times. No.22/Sep / Austin T ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 1992

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Identifier: CC-05625-5732
Scope and Contents

Tom Austin titles his article "Home Is Where the Art Is" and states in an interview that the "Sackner Archive renders the esoteric accessible." The essay traces the collection's origins and themes, defines concrete and visual poetry and documents the mentality of a collector. -- 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: Periodicals(unprocessed)

New York Times Magazine, The., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46165-48879
Scope and Contents

This issue contains an in depth essay "The 6th Annual year in Ideas" with a three dimensional alphabet designed by Chester Jenkins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Periodicals(unprocessed)

New York Times Magazine, The. Jan / Tufte E., 1992

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Identifier: CC-05591-5698
Scope and Contents

Up from Flatland by Phil Patton reviews the works of information designer Edward Tufte. His books "The Visual Display of Quartitative Information" and "Envisioning Information" are held by the Sackner Archive. -- 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: Periodicals(unprocessed)

New York Times Magazine, The. Mar / Neshat S., 2001

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Identifier: CC-35763-37520
Scope and Contents

Deborah Solomon writes that Shirin Neshat's "elaborately staged films express the real-life dramas of women living under Islam" in her essay Romance of the Chador. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001
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)

New York Times Magazine, The / Pettibon R., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44128-46253
Scope and Contents

Michael Kimmelman contributes an essay, "The Underbelly Artist Raymond Pettibone draws on L.A.'s detrius. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005
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)

Newspoems / Kupferberg, Tuli., 1971

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Identifier: CC-49003-70041
Dates: 1971
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)

Nicht Alle Fische Sind Vogel: Gedichte Und Gedichtgedicht / Riha, Karl ; Gomringer E., 1981

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Identifier: CC-03156-3205
Scope and Contents

The book is divided into several thematic sections with one dealing with poems using "gomringer" and another musical scores among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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)

Nicht/Worte / Sobolewski, Klaus., 1987

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Identifier: CC-02169-2209
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)

Night Physics / Taylor, Kent ; Horvath A., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-48655-69687
Scope and Contents

The poems by Taylor are illustrated by Alan Horvath who also contributed the cover design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002
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)

Nimrod's Tongue / Barreto-Rivera, Rafael ; Derrida J ; McCaffery S., 1985

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Identifier: CC-21447-21858
Dates: 1985
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)

Nine Poems / Simic, Charles., 1989

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Identifier: CC-01869-1905
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)

No Holds Bard / Hryciuk, Marshall ; Mallarme S ; Perse SJ ; Valery P ; Baudelaire C., 1989

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Identifier: CC-31106-32572
Scope and Contents

This is the 3rd edition of the book that was first published in 1985. -- 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)

No Island / Selby, Spencer., 1995

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Identifier: CC-38623-40532
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: Books (unprocessed)

No Music Please, 1967

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Identifier: CC-08307-8470
Scope and Contents

Also designated Turret Booklet No.9; the editor of the series was Edward Lucie-Smith and this was a presentation copy by Jandl to him. The first 50 copies were signed by Jandl. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
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 / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

No North Western Passage 2nd Edition / Simms, Colin., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-48684-69716
Scope and Contents

The first edition was published in 1980. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
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)

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