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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 799 Collections and/or Records:

Alles mit Bedacht: BarokesFurstenlob auf Herzog August (1579-1666) in Wort, Bild und Musik / Burger, Thomas, editor., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-23943-24391
Scope and Contents

Includes examples of German Baroque poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Alphabet Delight, 2007

 Item — Box 198: [Barcode: 31858072459682]
Identifier: CC-46563-49292
Scope and Contents

This dinner set was produced with the help of George Mill. Each plate and the napkin contain a different design composed of letters from the Serbian alphabet. This is a first edition of a unique limited collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Am den Ufern des Jordan / Daniel, Peter., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35805-37563
Scope and Contents

The prints depict alphabetical patterns. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Anakatabase / Da Ros, Francois, editor., 1991

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Identifier: CC-16332-16682
Scope and Contents

The text, which deals with a fictional tale on how man became a typographer, is translated into 20 languages. A French text in bold red type face is interleaved on all of the pages. The original print by Martine Rassineux consists of abstract and calligraphic markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Angste / Hoesselbarth, Kai., 1991

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Identifier: CC-39036-40974
Scope and Contents

This poem depicts the silhouette of a man's face and upper torso formed by the word "optimist" as a tautology. He is breaking out from the bars of a cell formed from a tautology of the words "stop, Angste (anxiety), Befurchtungen (worry), Bedenken (concern), Einwande (contradiction); Hemmungen (timidity), Vorbehalte (reservation), and Zweifel (doubt)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Angste / Hoesselbarth, Kai., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09334-9520
Scope and Contents

This poem depicts the silhouette of a man's face and upper torso formed by the word "optimist" as a tautology. He is breaking out from the bars of a cell formed from a tautology of the words "stop, Angste (anxiety), Befurchtungen (worry), Bedenken (concern), Einwande (contradiction); Hemmungen (timidity), Vorbehalte (reservation), and Zweifel (doubt)." Hosselbarth or Hoesselbarth is now known as Kai Selbar. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

[Annori] / Gerz, Jochen., 1967

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Identifier: CC-27442-28490
Scope and Contents

A lower case letter 'a' is filled with the horizontal rows of the word "annori" or fragments of "annori." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Announcement (Anzeige) / Dencker, Klaus-Peter., 1970

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Identifier: CC-57594-10000872
Scope and Contents

This typed work was depicted in Riddell's 1975 book "Typewriter Art." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Anonymous Us. No.19/June / Gorman L., 1995

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Identifier: CC-26845-27315
Scope and Contents

Edited by LeRoy Gorman, this periodical contains poems by grade school students. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Anonymous Us. No.20/Apr / Gorman L., 1996

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Identifier: CC-29082-30425
Scope and Contents

Edited by LeRoy Gorman, this periodical contains poems by grade school students. The theme of this issue is Sherlock Holmes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Another Almanac of Words at Play / Espy, Willard R. ; Smith WJ ; Burroughs WS ; Dante ; Ginsberg A ; Fisher E ; Kostelanetz R ; Updike J ; Wincor R ; Smith Sv ; Harlam S ; Morgenstern C., 1980

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Identifier: CC-14211-14517
Scope and Contents

The concrete poems that appeared in this anthology were composed by William Jay Smith, Richard Kostelanetz, Ed Fisher, Sam Harlan, Louis Phillips, and Richard Wincor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Another Almanac of Words at Play / Espy, Willard R. ; Smith WJ ; Burroughs WS ; Dante ; Ginsberg A ; Fisher E ; Kostelanetz R ; Updike J ; Wincor R ; Smith Sv ; Harlam S ; Morgenstern C., 1980

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Identifier: CC-36209-37996
Scope and Contents

The concrete poems that appeared in this anthology were composed by William Jay Smith, Richard Kostelanetz, Ed Fisher, Sam Harlan, Louis Phillips, and Richard Wincor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Ant - hill, ant - words, ant - special workers / Steen, Vagn., 1965

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Identifier: CC-40644-42618
Scope and Contents

This work was printed by Magnus Sandberg. It depicts a cluster of written words arranged in the shape of a hill. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Apollinaire: A Variation / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1997

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Identifier: CC-35371-37105
Scope and Contents

This poem, based on "Il Pleut" by Apollinaire, has drawings of little leaves instead of the letters. This symbolizes the falling of leaves in the fall rather than rain as in the original poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997