Concrete poetry
Found in 6506 Collections and/or Records:
The State of Things, 2006 / Nora Ligorano; Marshall Reese; C Bernstein., 2006
This dvd documents an ice sculpture formed of the letters of the word "DEMOCRACY" which was placed in the garden of the gallery on the third anniversary of the Iraq war. Its collapse due to the heat of the day was a metaphor for the tragic fate of democracy during that time period. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Subverse Wanders off the Word / Endwar., 1990
Endwar titles a poem from a word(s) and fragments it(them) into clusters and spaces, while retaining the same order of the letters, to form a new poem which can be read from top to bottom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
the sunlight shining through my wife's paisley skirt / levy, d.a.., 2002
The Sweetness of the Breath of Two Who Breathe as One / Young, Karl., 1991
The poem consists of printed text, which reads in part, "Given the nature of oxygen through the biosphere over time, you have probably breathed some of the same air as at least one of the following people: Moses, Buddha, Sappho, Jesus...and the first to experience unselfish love." Young's written poem of the title reads from right to left and bottom to top. It is positioned below the printed text and taken from 2300 year old Latin text. Young concludes "You may have shared a breath with its author. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Sydney Morning Vol.I (Word Works & Ideographics 1967-1988) / Tipping, Richard Kelly., 1989
The Sydney Morning Vol.II (Word Works 1967 - 1991) / Tipping, Richard Kelly., 1991
On the unbound page, Tipping provides background notes for each of the concrete poetic prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Sydney Morning Vol.III (Word Works & Ideographics 1967-1988) / Tipping, Richard Kelly., 1992
Includes works from the series Roadsigned & Subvertising. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Sydney Morning Volume IV (Word Works 1993 - 1994) / Tipping, Richard Kelly., 1994
On the unbound pages, Tipping provides background notes for each of the concrete poetic prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Tablets I-XXVI / Schwerner, Armand., 1989
the terrific days of summer / Bolton, Ken ; Alexander G., 1998
The brochure accompanying the book consists of a critical introduction to Bolton's poem that George Alexander likens to poetic abstract expressionism. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Thought of the Sensation (711230) , 1971
the total ir relevance (050668) / C (250369) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968 - 1978
Houedard plays on the similar pronunciation of particular French and English words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[The Tower][CR][The Tower] / Sharkey, John J.., 1969
The poem is in the shape of a tower with the base containing the following: "being an illlumination in graphic poems of some of the basic wordy structures of civilisation" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Transformation of the Big Bozo into that Set of Stretched Goal Squeezed Mainstream Bozos which when Push Comes to Shove Retain the Intestinal Fortitudes Needed to Trickle Down into Formations of Emergent Solid Subsets of the Set of All Sets which are not Members of Themselves which may not be in the end a Valid Member of itself yet Remains a Solid Member of Absolute Bozo Gate / Daniels, David., 2001
In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on sequential pages 325-334. The poem has several shaped segmsnts include a Coca Cola bottle, a butterfly, and a silhouetted figure among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Triumph of the Anti-Christ / Bentley, Wilder., 1987
Author states that no more than 499 copies will be printed of this pre-publication copy that apparently was never printed as a trade edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Triumph of the Mobile: The Structure of Information, the Language of Computers and Contemporary Poetry / Mottram, Eric ; Jarry A ; Pound E ; Stockhausen K ; Jandl E ; Zukofsky L ; Berio L ; Solt ME ; Chopin H ; Cobbing B ; Ligeti G ; Rothenberg J ; Olson C ; Nake F ; Cage J ; Burroughs WS ; Gysin B ; Morgan E ; Cox K., 2000
This essay was first published in Intrepid No.23-24, 1972. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Turn Your Self Inside Out if You Want to See an Alien Gate, 2001
In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 63. The shape of the poem appears to be the face of a cartoon character or hobglobin with many eyes. The poem is about "fear." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Tweeze / curry, jw ; UU D ; Evason G ; Venright S ; Drumbolis N., 1991
The text of this book was printed from individual rubberstamp letters. The bibliography consists of a description and excerpts of small run, non-circulated editions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.