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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6515 Collections and/or Records:

Visual Voices; Poem Reorganized According to a Subliminal Principle of Cohesion; pages 82-83 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-56882-10000248
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), from The Lay of the Last Minstrel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem Seen Sideways, in Profile; pages 68-69 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56848-10000216
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Robert Herrick (1591-1674), "Delight in Disorder." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem: Simultaneous View of As Both Crowded and Spacious; pages 112--113 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56993-10000355
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Air from Elizabethan songbook: "Every bush new springing" Every bush new springing, Every bird now singing, Merrily sat poor Nicho, Chanting troli lo loli lo, Till her he had espied On whom his hope relied, Down a down, with a frown, O she pulled him down. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem with Hair; pages 74-75 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56851-10000219
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Thomas Dekker (1570?-1632), from Pleasant Comedy of Patient Grissil. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem with Rhymes Unclasped, Falling off Their Cliffs; pages 60-61 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56844-10000212
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), "Nature." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem with Right Margin Pulled Tight to Dislodge Secret Message; pages 44-45 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56817-10000185
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Anonymous, 16th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem with Rightful Line Evicting an Impostor from Another Poem; pages 48-49 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56819-10000187
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Poem with rightful line: William Blake(1757-1827), Poem with fraudulent line: Abraham Cowley (1618-1667). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Reader's Free Alteration Poem pages 26-27 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56793-10000162
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), "She Walks in Beauty." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Refrain Notation Poem; pages 132--133 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57012-10000374
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon "Tomorrow shall be my dancing day," early English song Spenser, "Epithalamion" Wyatt, "The Lover Complaynath the Unkindness of his Love" (1503 - 1549). Refrains from the three different poems ring out in repetition, print-interconnected, given in notation rather than full quote. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Reverberations: Night Mind Anthology pages 2-3 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56772-10000144
Scope and Contents

This poem appears to be a melange of Weiss' own poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Reverse Word -Order Poem; pages 120--121 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57006-10000368
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon William Collins (1721-1759), "Ode Written in the Beggining of the Year 1746." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Telegram Poem; pages 64-65 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56846-10000214
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Thomas Parnell (1679-1718), "When thy beauty appears." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Telephone Doodle Poem; pages 36-37 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56798-10000167
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Sir Edward Dyer (d.1607), "The lowest trees have tops." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Telescopic Piece of Poem Marching in the Poetic Firmament ; pages 94--95 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56942-10000306
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Keats, "Sleep and Poetry,"11. 47-58 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices: The Book Closed, the Facing Pages Kiss; pages 144-145 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57239-10000561
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon William Wordsworth (1770-1850), "The White Doe of Rylstone," Canto Four, lines 68-169. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; The Eye Crawls Along the Periphery of the Poem; pages 90--91 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56939-10000304
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Barnabe Barnes (1569?-1609), from Divine Century of Spiritual Sonnets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; The Incarcerate's Sweet Hope pages 16-17 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56779-10000151
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon "Longfellow, Sonnet to accompany his translation of the Divine Comedy." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; The Poem of the Unmoored Lines Remembered pages 12-13 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56777-10000149
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon" lines unattributed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; The Poem Speaks in the Poet's Voice; pages 98--99 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-56944-10000308
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Browning, "One Way of Love" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Toppling Poem; or, the Dangersof the Doggerel Tower; pages 96--97 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-56943-10000307
Scope and Contents

This poem is based uponJohn Skelton (1460?-1529), " Mistress Margaret." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994