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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 799 Collections and/or Records:

A Whimsey Anthology / Wells, Carolyn, editor ; Dodge H ; Carroll L ; Herrick R., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-00588-602
Scope and Contents

Includes examples of shaped, alphabetical, typographical, alliterative, acrostic, anagraphic, palidromic, and mneumonic poems as well as several types of conventional poems. This reprinted book was first published in 1906 and most of the poems were composed earlier than 1897. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Abacus: Preponderance of the Pull of Paradise. No.101/Oct / John Perlman., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28152-29315
Scope and Contents

Edited by Peter Ganick. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Abacus: Waver. No.18/May / Peter Inman., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-24407-24859
Scope and Contents

Edited by Peter Ganick. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

about Michael Basinski / Daniels, David; Basinski M., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-42374-44384
Scope and Contents

The shape of the poem is in the form of a five legged creature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Accidental Nature / Sutherland, W. Mark., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-02744-2787
Scope and Contents

Depicts Sutherland's rendition of an avalanche. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Agentzia Blatt: [Mer]. No.2, 1970

 Item — Folder 10: [Barcode: 31858069877912]
Identifier: CC-28137-29300
Scope and Contents

Words in three languages, relating to the sea, appear to be floating in a circle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Agentzia Blatt: [$]. No.3, 1971

 Item — Folder 10: [Barcode: 31858069877912]
Identifier: CC-23520-23965
Scope and Contents

A large letter 'S,' flanked by two vertical 'I's' to the right, are formed by typewitten generated words. All words in the 'S' begin with the letter 's,' whereas the words in the two 'i' columns, which should begin with the letter 'i,' lack this letter. It is up to the reader to utilize the letter 'i' when reading the text in these columns. The words appear to be randomly chosen as in automatic writing but have political overtones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Air: Ziggurats. No.29 / Henry Greenhow., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-29829-31209
Scope and Contents

Pages consist of typings that form geometric shapes mainly based upon punctuation marks, percent symbols, the letter 'z' and numbers. There are no typewriter poems with verbal meanings is included in this collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Air: Ziggurats. No.29 / Henry Greenhow., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-29830-31210
Scope and Contents

Pages consist of typings that form geometric shapes mainly based upon punctuation marks, percent symbols, the letter 'z' and numbers. There are no typewriter poems with verbal meanings is included in this collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Alan Sondheim 1958 - ; 5: Sound / Daniels, David; Sondheim A., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-42380-44390
Scope and Contents

This poem depicts a highly stylized figure with a crown above a black space where the face should be. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Alfred Kent Nelson 1947- / Daniels, David., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-42375-44385
Scope and Contents

The shape of the poem is in the form of a camel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Algol: Ah Sphere Ahasuerus / Todorovic, Miroljub., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-37569-39426
Scope and Contents

The shape depicted in the collage represents a human-like figure with a three lead electrocardiographic tracing as the body. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Aliquotality / Furnival, John., 1973

 Item — Folder 39: [Barcode: 31858072459997]
Identifier: CC-13316-13617
Scope and Contents

Images consist of language towers, number tower, the Statue of Liberty, a cowboy and Uncle Sam dipping an Englishman into a pot of tea. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" on pages 58-59. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973