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Conventional non-fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1854 Collections and/or Records:

The World is Coming ! / Miller, Brown., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-49110-70150
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: Books (unprocessed)

The Writing on the Wall: 108 Poems of Protest / Lowenfels, Walter, editor ; Ferlinghetti L ; Kupferberg T ; Ginsberg A ; Starbuck G ; Merton T ; Blazek D ; levy da ; cummings ee ; Patchen K ; Kaufman B ; Bukowski C., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-07108-7248
Scope and Contents

d.a.levy's poem in this anthology, "the bells of the Cherokee ponies," deals with the injustices suffered by the American Indians. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Books (unprocessed)

The Xibalba Arcane / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-09822-10016
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a figurative expressionistic painting by Hirschman. -- 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: Books (unprocessed)

Thebes / Jensen, Dale., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-01544-1579
Dates: 1991
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)

There Will Be Floods / Dezso, Andrea., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-47796-68815
Scope and Contents

Dezso illustrated this essay with a black and white scene of a tidal wave breaking over a city. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008
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)

There's a llttle ambiguity over there among the bluebells / Krauss, Ruth ; Brecht G ; Charlip R., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-41474-43459
Scope and Contents

This collection of brief, poem-plays is illustrated by Marilyn Harris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
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)

Things Are Happening / Beckman, Joshua ; Stern G., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-44897-47069
Scope and Contents Gerald Stern contributed a critical introductory essay. Amazon.com review: Joshua Beckman, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, is one of those poets whose work you mustn't miss. His talent shines in his ability to make disparate events become part of a whole. "Purple Heart Highway" constructs loss as imminent danger ("where a train might mistakenly come") or as the pendulum between routine and chaos ("a gray grinning calmness / from which you can get nothing to wake") or as a sudden realization that threads far back into one's past ("I woke up to a plate full of no options / echoing through the cupped ear of my life / spinning the wheels that wouldn't, / for anything, take me away").In "Winter's Horizon" the theme of loss seeks--and finds--its own sensibilities. A boy writes a story about a father who rides off into the sunset on his riding lawnmower. The boy feels his story is full of meaning, his mother hates it, and his teacher gives it an A+. Yet the lines between...
Dates: 1998
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)

Things / Martin, Stephen-Paul., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-06709-6828
Scope and Contents

Illustrations that accompany poems are photographs of structures made from paper clips and rubber bands. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
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)

Third Front & Detached Pieces / Roland Penrose, translator ; E.L.T. Mesens, translator., 1944

 Item
Identifier: CC-43511-45583
Scope and Contents

Mesens initials of his first name stand for Edouard-Leon-Theodore. This book is illustrated with 5 designs by Mesens, the first of which is negativised for the translation, i.e. the French image is a negative of the English positive. The final illustration is an artistic interpretation of a musical score titled "La Partition Complete/The Complete Score." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1944
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)

Thirteen Mad Sonnets / McClure, Michael., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-47554-68562
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: Books (unprocessed)

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Crow / Lucas, Dennis., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-07309-7453
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)

This Is What You Wanted, Isn't It?, 1970

 Item — Box 350: [Barcode: 31858072490869]
Identifier: CC-48153-69176
Scope and Contents

There are reproductions of nine collages done by Blazek in this book. Most copies have the publisher name stricken out and c/o Abyss stamped in; this is not the case in this copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
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

ths is erth thees ar peopul , 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-53147-74299
Scope and Contents

From the rear cover review by the National Post: "The question this latest fusion of song, sound, performance and visual poetry from bill bissett is for a human condition ourside the perpetual terror of the twenty-first century..." Has marginalia in graphite by previous owner on pages 5, 8, 26, 27, 125 and 142. -- 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 (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Thumbprints / Fetherling, Douglas, editor ; Nichol bp ; bissett b ; Atwood M ; Ball N ; Souster R ; Garnet E ; Colombo JR., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-11248-11463
Scope and Contents

Subtitled "An Anthology of Hitchhiking Poems," this may be considered a precursor to the hitchhiking poems and journal of John Curry on his trip across Canada in 1994, held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Books (unprocessed)

Tide(s) of Memory: Postmodern Queer, 2002

 Item — Box 129: [Barcode: 31858072457892]
Identifier: CC-38866-40792
Scope and Contents

This second volume of this series is implemented with markings, words and letters and is intended as a work on non-fiction. FnL (Francis and Leonie) collaborated on the concept, construction and binding. The authors write that "meaning is abolished and priority given to sight and touch." Postmodern Queer informs the queer from a postmodern perspective and is an on-going project that appears in many formats and sizes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Contains volume I (burlap, soft cover) and volume II (paper).

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 (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

Tidings / Angeleri, Lucy M. ; Pritchard, Norman H. ; Merton T ; Reps P., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-27160-27635
Scope and Contents

Norman Pritchard II contributed calligraphic embellishments to this book. This book is stored with Pritchard material. -- 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)

T=I=D=Y Language / Bradley, Daniel f.., 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-48860-69896
Scope and Contents

This book is designated Outlands eight. -- 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: Books (unprocessed)

Tierra de Malandras, 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-16159-16502
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 (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Time Flies: Butterflies / Dolis, John., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33749-35413
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)

Timothy McSweeney's. No.40 / Dave Eggers, editor ; Eggers D., 2012

 Item
Identifier: CC-54570-34789
Scope and Contents

The hard cover book is titled "In My Home There Is No More Sorrow: Ten Days in Rwanda" by Rick Bass.The soft cover book is McSweeney No.40. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012
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)

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