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Concrete poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6515 Collections and/or Records:

Visual Voices; Elizabeth Barrett Browning Corpus Stylistic Analysis Program Reinventing "How Do I Love Thee"; pages 50-51 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56838-10000206
Scope and Contents

This poem is based uponElizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), Sonnets From the Portuguese, 43. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Fifteenth-Century Poem Stands Boldly out against the Dimness of Its Long Neglect; pages 40-41 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56800-10000169
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.This poem is based upon John Skelton (1406?-1529), "Prayer to the Father of Heaven." The poem consists of normal typed letters and just above it a retyping with faint letters, presumably from a deliberate use of a faded typewriter ribbon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Foundering poem: Of the Going Down into Davy Jones Locker Were Already Lies... pages 92--93 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56941-10000305
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This poem is based upon John Bunyan, "Of the Going Down of the Sun" Shakespeare, "Full Fantom Five" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Fourth Wall Poem; pages 70-71 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56849-10000217
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This poem is based upon"For the nightmare." 2093 Bodleian 15353 Early 15th Century. Reprinted in Luria and Hoffman, Middle English Lyrics, as No.116, with glossary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Graffiti Poem pages 18-19 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56780-10000152
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon "Sources for the images on pages 20-22." Published in Rampike (1985). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Graffiti Poem pages 20-21 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56781-10000153
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon "Sources on pages 18-19." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Horror Poem; pages 52-53 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56840-10000208
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Robert Browning (1812-1889), "Pippas's Song." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Major Poem with Minor Poem Huddling to Heel; pages 38-39 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56799-10000168
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This poem is based upon William Wordsworth (1770-1850), "Mutability." William Strode (1602-1645), "On Chloris Walking in the Snow." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices: Manuscript of Book Version / Weiss, Irving; Herbert G; Herrick R; Marvell A; Mallarme S; Blake W., 1994

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Identifier: CC-00612-626
Scope and Contents Weiss' book, "Visual Voices: The Poem as a Print Object," 1994 consists of poems appropriated from ancient and classic poems that have been rearranged or altered in their presentation as typed artpoe to convey new meanings mainly based mainly on concrete poetic or conceptual text expressions. He provided an explanation for each of 71 poems published in the book as well as 28 unpublished poems in the typed manuscript. He classified his styles of typed artpoe with headings such as zipperpoem, caressed and overloved poem, telegram poem, etc. He altered poems from such stalwarts as Andrew Marvell, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning , Alfred Tennyson, and John Keats among others. VISUAL POETRY BY IRVING WEISS Team Sonnet: 14 Lines by 14 Different Canonical Poets from Visual Voices: The Poem As a Print Object Appease this virtuous enemy of man (MARVELL) The way which thou so well hast learn'd below, (DRYDEN) And dwell, as in my center, as I can, (JONSON) As into air the purer...
Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Megaphone Index Poem pages 30-31 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56795-10000164
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Poetry anthology index excerpts "announcing" their id entification of the book's contents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Onomatopoeic Poem; pages 142-143 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57238-10000560
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Anonymous, "Western wind." The meeting of visual and voice. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Original Coursing through Translation: Aerial View; pages 88--89 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56937-10000303
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Byron, translation of Dante, Inferno V, 11. 93-142. Published in Atticus Review 4, Winter 1983. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices: Poem As Mental Convergence toward Its Two Finest Lines; pages 62-63 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56845-10000213
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon William Alabaster (1567-1640), "Upon the Crucifix." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem Eyeless, Toothless, Headless; pages 118--119 / Weiss, Irving; Blake W., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57005-10000367
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Blake, " Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem Floating through One's Dream, Blurred in Three Places pages 14-15 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56778-10000150
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This poem is based upon John Donne's (1573-1631), "Death Be Not Proud." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem in Extremis: Trying to Escape Itself; pages 42-43 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56816-10000184
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This poem is based upon Abraham Cowley (1618-1667), "Sport." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem in the Making and Unmaking pages 6-7 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56774-10000146
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Geirge Herbert's (1593-1633) poem, "The Quiddity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem of the Reader's Laser-Beam Mind Fusing an Epic into Its Initial and Concluding Lines; pages 86--87 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56936-10000299
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This poem is based upon Michael Drayton (1563-1631). The first two and the last two lines of Poly-Olbion, Or a Chorographical Description of Tracts, Rivers, Mountains, Forest and other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britain, with Intermixtureof the Most Remarkable Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarities, Pleasures, and Commodities of the Same. " -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem Refusing To Be Paged; pages 46-47 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56818-10000186
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon the First Set of Madrigals of Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994