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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6515 Collections and/or Records:

Visual Voices; Two Sonnets Trying to "Pass" with Exchanged Parts; pages 54-55 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-56841-10000209
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547), "Vow to love faithfully, howsoever he be rewarded." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices Unpublished; An All-But-the-Poem-Itself Poem; page 40 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57256-10000578
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Emerson, "Good Hope" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices Unpublished; An All-Long-Poems-Meet-in-the-Middle Poem; page 20 / Weiss, Irving; Blake W., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57249-10000571
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Milton, Paradise Regained, Book 3, 11. 47-118. Butler, Hudibras, Part III, Canto I, 11. 795-859 & 915-920. Blake, Vala, or The Four Zoas, "Night the Eighth" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices Unpublished; Excerpt from a 14th- Century Poem Refracted by Twentieth-Century Sensibility; page 69 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57266-10000588
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Chaucer, "The Legend of Thisbe of Babylon," Incipit Legende Tesbe Babilonie, Martiris, from The Legend of Good Women, beginning lines -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices Unpublished; Jigsawn Poem Assembled; page 76 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57267-10000589
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon George Gascoigne, "The Plowman," from The Steel Glass -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices Unpublished; Poem Jumbling All Its Means To Become a Prose Print Paragraph; page 41 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57257-10000579
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon John Jones, from his Adrasta, 1635 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices Unpublished; Poem with Eroded Edges; page 82 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57268-10000590
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Sir Walter Ralegh, "Epitaph" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices Unpublished; Poem with Sounds Rebounding and Blending; page 52 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57260-10000582
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Drayton, from Poems, 1619 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices Unpublished; Rogue Poemlet Dislocation with Impudent Rehosting Elsewhere; page 16 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57248-10000570
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Rogue: from sonnet by William Percy in Coelia, 1594. Original source: sonnet by Percy. Second host: sonnet by Barnaby Barnes in Divine Century of Spiritual Sonnets, 1595. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices Unpublished; Shadows Beginning to Fall into the Well of the Poem; page 29 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57252-10000574
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Drummond of Hawthornden from Flowers od Sion -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices Unpublished; The Weave in the Fabric of the Sonnet; page 54 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57261-10000583
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Wyatt, "Who so list to hount" Stretch out the sonnet in order to perceive better how the weave works, any type of sonnet will do, in this example Wyatt's use of the Italian connection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices Unpublished; World Within a World Poem; page 59 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57263-10000585
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Chapman, from The Whole Works of Homer, c.1616, Iliad, Book XVIII -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices Unpublished;Poem Accumulating Fourteen Lines; page 24 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57250-10000572
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Shakespeare, Sonnet 106 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Zeroing - In Poem; pages 84-85 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56883-10000249
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Ben Jonson, "Slow, slow, freah fount." from Cynthia's Revels. The word at the zero circlet, between "grief" and "showers," is, indeed, "in." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Zipperpoem: The Approach, Closure, and Congress; pages 56-57 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56842-10000210
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Sonnets 65 and 71. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices;Two Poems Accidentally Driven Together by Homolettristic Explosions in an Alphabetical Minefield; pages 58-59 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56843-10000211
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542), "Hate whom ye list." Barnabe Googe (1504-1594), "To Doctor Bale." The two poems, unaware of each other's presence, meet in an alphabetical minefield. In their collision they accidentally interconnect lines, becoming a monster of a single poem, at which the mines go off homolettristically, each mine blowing up its letter-likeness in an adjacent line of the monstrous poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visualeyes / Cole, David., 1988

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Identifier: CC-19646-20032
Scope and Contents

The text is stenciled and colored and is placed at random in this folded drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Visuals! / Schwarz, Christoph., 1995

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Identifier: CC-32345-33912
Scope and Contents

The book consists of highly innovative, concrete and visual poems, one each to a page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995