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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 799 Collections and/or Records:

Celebration de la Laine / Blanc, Jean., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-33035-34657
Scope and Contents

The front cover and the first two pages depict a pattern poem using the words "celebration de" in the shape of wool threads. "La Laine" means wool in English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Celeste / Tompkins, Betty., 1980

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Identifier: CC-48351-69377
Scope and Contents

This four colored print depicts a cow formed from repetitive written word 'cow.' The word 'hay' on the ground in front of the cow is repeated to form a stack of hay that is also being chewed by the cow. The cow is standing on a gray mound of words that spell 'snow.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Cere E Arcobaleni / Simoni, Sara ; Baroni, Vittore ; Simoni, Piero., 1981

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Identifier: CC-02115-2153
Scope and Contents

Each page contains a portrait composed of typed letters and words with crayoned enhancements. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

C'est mon dada: Homage to the Square and other visual poems. No.16/Jan / Clemente Padin ; Malevich K ; Albers J ; Cage J ; Kosuth J ; Garnier P ; Dias-Pino W ; Zaj ; Brossa J ; Vigo EA ; Deisler G ; Cobbing B ; Bennett JM ; Blaine J., 2008

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Identifier: CC-47657-68671
Scope and Contents

Padin composes the shaped poems of "Homage to the Square" in the styles of various poets and artists reminiscent of the typewriter poems composed by Jiri Kolar In Und No.2, 1969, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Chair l'Occident - Cher / Chopin, Henri., 1961

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Identifier: CC-18708-19081
Scope and Contents

This is the original of the typing which appears in Chopin's book of unnumbered pages, "Le Dernier Roman du Monde" in b&w. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1961

Charactures of Religious Figures / Plantu; Gotlib, Marcil., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44513-46663
Scope and Contents

This issue deals with the Danish crisis in the Islamic world cause by publishing cartoons of the prophet Mohamet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

[Chinese Palindrome: The World's Most Exquisite Literature] / Wang, Chung-huo., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-28879-30201
Scope and Contents

The photstats were printed on glossy photographic paper. They consist of several duplicates of varied exposures and magnifications. According to Dick Higgins, who owned these photostats fpr publication in his book "Pattern Poetry," the original book in the 1970s was not available in the USA. However, the Sackner Archive acquired the book in 2012. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Chrac / Kozol, Myroslav., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34299-35992
Scope and Contents

These prints are two stage proofs of a poem in white handwritten letters on a blue background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Christ and Disciples / Myslowski, Tadeusz., 1984

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Identifier: CC-36077-37854
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1984

Cockles of the Heart / Mackowiak, Barbara., 1980

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Identifier: CC-06106-6220
Scope and Contents

This poem in the shape of a heart is made up of well known phrases dealing with the word "heart." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Cockles of the Heart / Mackowiak, Barbara., 1980

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Identifier: CC-06110-6224
Scope and Contents

This poem in the shape of a heart is made up of well known phrases dealing with the word "heart." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Collected Poems / Swenson, May., 2013

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Identifier: CC-56675-10004592
Scope and Contents Although Swenson's book, 'Iconographs' is recognized for multitude of shaped poems, this book depicts several other examples throughout her poetic career. These include poems from the following books, ' To Mix with Time' (1963) and 'Half Sun Half Sleep' (1967). In a section of 'Collected Poems' (2013) entitled 'Notes on the Text page 726, it is mentioned that the shaped poems of 'Iconographs' were oroginally published in a typewriter font preferred by Swenson.Alfred Corn Review from Poetry Magazine (December 2, 2013:Definition won't be easy, and it has to begin by taking her biography into account. The profile of the provincial who comes to New York in hopes of ?becoming a celebrated artist is standard enough, but in Swenson's case several non-routine factors should also be ?considered. Her parents were Swedish immigrants, Mormon converts come to the Utah homeland, who brought her up in their ?adopted faith. But at some point she realized she was a lesbian. This was one more reason...
Dates: 2013

Collected Poems Volume Fifteen: Gibbering His Wares / Cobbing, Bob ; Manson P., 1996

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Identifier: CC-31689-33198
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by Peter Manson. The final section of this book consists of annotations to the poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Collection "Pages sans Titre": untitled. No.3 / Michel Corfou., 1978

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Identifier: CC-18556-18928
Scope and Contents

Several of the typings are portraits and each of the works enclosed by a line drawing of an egg. The issue of this periodical is stored in the Michel Corfou box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

[Colors] / Kleinberg, Judy I.., 1983

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Identifier: CC-62483-47636
Scope and Contents

Names of colors are printed in a rainbow shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Colour Me Dutiful, 1986

 Item — Box 144: [Barcode: 31858072457975]
Identifier: CC-39127-41069
Scope and Contents

The cast paper case is a death mask of a woman. Each drawing is a rubberstamped portrait of a woman's facial features dealing with her response to cosmetics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

[come mani brinate...] / Caruso, Luciano., 1988 - 1989

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Identifier: CC-33951-35623
Scope and Contents

The collage consists of nine overlapping leaves in a horizontal row that have handwritten text collaged onto a white paper disc. The latter is collaged onto a green paper background. An additional leaf is collaged at the top center of ther disc. Caruso has written and cancelled a phrase beginning "come mani brinate..." in the lower half of the disc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988 - 1989