Shaped poetry
Found in 799 Collections and/or Records:
Why Shiva Has Ten Arms / Cobbing, Bob., 1969
Designated writers forum folder number seven. This tenth publication of Cobbing includes new versions of the following poems: "Soma," "Whisper Piece," "Vertigo," "Marvo Movies Natter," and "Transcript." Colophon states "Why Shiva has ten arms / for he represents the dance of life / the omnipotence of being able to do innumerably / many things at once / .the joyous cosmology -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Why Shiva Has Ten Arms / Cobbing, Bob., 1969
Designated writers forum folder number seven. This tenth publication of Cobbing includes new versions of the following poems: "Soma," "Whisper Piece," "Vertigo," "Marvo Movies Natter," and "Transcript." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Wing / Fraser, Kathleen ; Brainard J ; Jess ; Elmslie K., 1995
According to the author, this book consists of a series of poems which were inspired by Mel Bochner's drawings and installations. The shaped poem is reminiscent of Herbert's Easter Wings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Woman] / Bremer, Claus., 1969
Wordgraphics / Levi, Frank., 1991
Words In Th Fire (From Ice) / bissett, bill., 1972
Words with Wings / Anonymous., 1993
Working It Out / Scher, Paula; Rittner, Jennifer., 2006
This is an illustration for an essay by Claudia Goldin which makes the point that women are not giving up careers for home and family. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
World Visual Poetry / Soroka, Mykola ; Higgins D ; Cobbing B ; Sackner MA ; Rypson P ; Garnier P ; Lora-Totino A ; Padin C ; Nazarenko T ; Miroshnychenko M ; Iov I ; Trubaj V ; Apollinaire G ; Mayer HJ ; Williams E ; Kostelanetz R., 1999
There is a brief, very informative abstract in English at the beginning of the book. The book is divided into three chapters, viz., 1) Evolution of visual poetry to the 20th century, 2) Contemporary visual poetry of the 20th century, and 3) Evolution of Ukrainian visual poetry in a world context. A photograph of Soroka flanked by Dick Higgins and Marvin Sackner taken at the EyeRhymes visual conference at Edmonton, Canada 1997 is reproduced. Marvin Sackner is characterized as "the owner of the biggest archive of visual poetry."The book depicts more than 20 examples in the Old Ukrainian language and 49 examples in many national literatures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
wortBILD: Visuelle Poesie in der DDR, 1990
Xerolage: The Flowers of Mental Illness and The Big Bozo. No.34 / David Daniels., 2005
The flower poem/stories are all in the form of varied flowers. The Big Bozo poems consist of different shaped abstract objects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Xprmntl Ptry / De Rook, G.J.., 1971
The loose sheet consists of a translation from the Dutch to English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Yaweh / Barancik, Bob., 1994
Years / Daniels, David., 2001
David Daniels was born in 1932 and begins his autobiography embellished with fantasizing with 1933. He describes his life in concrete poetic terms, year by year up until 1972. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Years / Daniels, David ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA ; Basinski M ; Goldsmith K., 2001
This book extends the autobiography of David Daniels from 1973 to 2002 (original manuscript with same title ran from 1933 to 1972). The years 1933 to 1972 are repeated from the original manuscript that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Yes, I Answered You Last Night / Simpkins, Rosemary., 1996
The book is shaped like the facade of the St. Marylebone Parish Church in London where Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning secretly wed on September 12, 1846. The translucent wrapper is printed with the same church facade and steeple. The pages of the book are shaped like wedding rings, eight for the bride and eight for the groom, and are printed in goldwith information from the marriage record and excerpts of poetry. As the ring/pages are opened, the reader approaches the alter just as the bride and groom did. The white envelope is also printed in gold type carrying out the wedding theme.Pages of the book are also depicted in the exhibition catalogue held by the Sackner Archive, "MA Book Arts 1996." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Zaoumni by Velimir Klebnikov / Caine, Michael; Da Ros, Francois; Catherine Prigent, translator., 2000
The poems of Khlebnikov were translated from the Russian Zaum language of Khlebnikov to French using varied type faces. The illustrations are abstract engravings in earth colors, with imagery reminiscent of prints by Stanley Hayter. The colophon is printed in the layout of a Russian ferro-concrete poem. This edition is one of 60 printed on grand papier either Moulin du Verger of Somerset. Ten examples were printed of Japon Bunkosbi and 10 on Japon paper made by hand in China. The Japon de tete had smaller dimensions with an additional set of 13 engravings done in black and white. Twenty copies were also produced on Lanagravure. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Zebra] / Lock, Rolf., 1995
This work depicts a zebra that is made up of the Latin names for this animal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Znamy a Neznamy / Apollinaire, Guillaume., 1981
This book consists of a translation of Apollinaire's poetry into Czech language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.