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Conventional non-fiction

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1854 Collections and/or Records:

To Answer / Mayakovsky, Vladimir., 1982

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Identifier: CC-06282-6397
Scope and Contents

The dust jacket is decorated with a constructivistic design of Varvara Stepanova from 1920. There has been water damage to the pages but the text is unaffected. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

To Do As Adam Did: Selected Poems of Ronald Johnson, 2000

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Identifier: CC-37061-38901
Scope and Contents

Edited by Peter O'Leary who also contributed an introduction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

To Repel Ghosts / Young, Kevin ; Basquiat JM., 2001

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Identifier: CC-38104-39996
Scope and Contents Young has written a poetic biography of the artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat.From Publishers Weekly: In this thick volume of 117 lean-lined poems, Young reanimates Jean-Michel Basquiat, the much-documented painter, graffiti artist and art world martyr who overdosed in 1988 at age 27. Unlike the salacious biographies, however, this epic is impressively faithful to its subject's obliquely political style and preoccupations: "Basquiat scrawls/ & scribbles, clots/ paint across/ the back/ wall of Keith Haring's/ Cable Building studio / two cops, keystoned,/ pounding a beat,/ pummel/ a black face scape/ goat, sarcophagus / uniform blue." By and large, the poems are ekphrastic, addressing particular Basquiat works and often incorporating Basquiat's painted texts into the poems (with the former often out-performing the latter), disturbing the neat division between homage and appropriation: "Andy's already bit/ the dust/ & Basquiat's just/ about to DEBT (SIC)/PISS PASSPORT/ FREE KIT...
Dates: 2001

to the mainline heart / Matson, Clive ; Wieners J ; Matson E., 1966

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Identifier: CC-60579-10003474
Scope and Contents

This is the poet's first book. Erin Matson contributed four surrealistic drawings, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Tod Durch Musen, 1966

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Identifier: CC-28287-29462
Scope and Contents

One thousand copies of this book were published; 800 were signed and numbered, 200 were not. This copy is from the 200 which were unnumbered; however, both Mayrocker and Gomringer signed the book. The book consists of Mayrocker's poems with an afterward by Gomringer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Tony the Bricklayer / Perniciaro, Tony., 1972

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Identifier: CC-04553-4640
Scope and Contents

The picture poems are reminescent of the style of Kenneth Patchen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Torn Birds / Taylor, Kent ; Kryss TL ; levy da., 1969

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Identifier: CC-48694-69726
Scope and Contents

The silkscreen cover was done by D.r. Wagner according to Water Row Books catalogue 75 1999. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Touch Me...A Book of 3227s / Shelby, Gene Ann., 1978

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Identifier: CC-33819-35487
Scope and Contents

Several poems are illustrated with calligraphic drawings by Colleen Tesanovich. The calligraphic style is reminiscent of drawings by Judith Copithorne. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978