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Shaped poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 799 Collections and/or Records:

Couleurs Intimes: Poemes Calligraphies / Bearn, Pierre., 1953

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Identifier: CC-55440-9999125
Scope and Contents The shapes of the poems in this book are composed of calligraphic text arranged to form human figures or parts of figures. In addition, line drawings of human figures overlay conventional poems to form picture poems. Finally, both line and calligraphic drawings of the same figurative shape are printed on some of the facing pages. This effect is analogous to the work of the Italian poet, Ketty La Rocca that was published in the seventies.Wikipedia: Pierre Bearn (15 June 1902 -- October 27, 2004) was a French writer. He was born Louis-Gabriel Besnard in Bucharest, Romania.He is known to Anglophones for his poem "Couleurs d'usine", which includes the line Metro boulot bistrots megots dodo zero (translation: "Subway work bars (cigarette) butts sleep nothing"). A multifaceted personality, at one time a journalist, novelist, poet, fabulist and humanist, at age nine Bearn began writing in French slang, his "natural" language. His father having died prematurely, at the age of 14 he became...
Dates: 1953

Couleurs Intimes: Poemes Calligraphies / Bearn, Pierre., 1953

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Identifier: CC-23259-23698
Scope and Contents The shapes of the poems in this book are composed of calligraphic text arranged to form human figures or parts of figures. In addition, line drawings of human figures overlay conventional poems to form picture poems. Finally, both line and calligraphic drawings of the same figurative shape are printed on some of the facing pages. This effect is analogous to the work of the Italian poet, Ketty La Rocca that was published in the seventies.Wikipedia: Pierre Bearn (15 June 1902 -- October 27, 2004) was a French writer. He was born Louis-Gabriel Besnard in Bucharest, Romania.He is known to Anglophones for his poem "Couleurs d'usine", which includes the line Metro boulot bistrots megots dodo zero (translation: "Subway work bars (cigarette) butts sleep nothing"). A multifaceted personality, at one time a journalist, novelist, poet, fabulist and humanist, at age nine Bearn began writing in French slang, his "natural" language. His father having died prematurely, at the age of 14 he became...
Dates: 1953

Counter-Blast / McLuhan, Marshall., 1969

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Identifier: CC-06778-6897
Scope and Contents

This book designed by Harley Parker is a contemporaneous parody of Wyndham Lewis' Vorticist magazine Blast. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Crevice/Map / Johanknecht, Susan; Newson, Jenifer., 1984

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Identifier: CC-08332-8495
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The text on one side, MAP, describes the contour of an imagined terrain in concrete poetic terms while the text on the other side, CREVICE, describes female anatomy in visual poetic terms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Cropontrep Holddal I / Geczi, Janos., 1983

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Identifier: CC-10037-10236
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This shaped poem in Hungarian text depicts a saxophone with stylzed emination of music. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

dbqp: Grugprab. No.152/May / Michael Helsem., 1992

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Identifier: CC-14809-15122
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Also designated Hit Broadside #20. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Deaths and Entrances / Thomas, Dylan., 1965

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Identifier: CC-29105-30450
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This is the seventh reprinting of the book. Some of the 24 poems in the book deal with WWII. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Deciduous Review, The. No.3/Spr / Rich Hoffman, editor., 1978

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Identifier: CC-15057-15374
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The editor, Rich Hoffman, was a Pulmonary Research Fellow under Sackner's supervision in 1988. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Denkzerrung / Hoesselbarth, Kai., 1993

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Identifier: CC-09727-9920
Scope and Contents

The title translates to mental capacity for pulling. The image printed on the cover and utilized in four of the prints consists of a stylized pair of hands formed by text. Hosselbarth or Hoesselbarth is now known as Kai Selbar. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Der Buchstaben Fresser / Muller, Richard., 1988

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Identifier: CC-06698-6817
Scope and Contents

The title translates to an eater or glutton of letters. An image of a face formed by letters and typographic ornaments is placed on an opposite page to a brief poem dealing with eating of various letters. The cover of handmade paper has fragments of text embedded within it. The book was first published in 1988 by Edition Fundamental as 40 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

der kunstliche baum, 1970

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Identifier: CC-37303-39150
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This copy, considered a 1st edition, was printed in 1972 but was first published in 1970. The cover of this copy is a printed introduction to Jandl's work. The book is an anthology of Jandl's experimental poetries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

der kunstliche baum 8th Ed. , 1970

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Identifier: CC-37302-39149
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This copy was printed in 1981 but was first published in 1970. Its cover that depicts a photographic head portrait of Jandl differs from the March 1972 printing cover that is a printed introduction to his work. The latter is also held by the Sackner Archive. The book is an anthology of Jandl's experimental poetries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Dernieres Paroles De Louis XVI, 1989

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Identifier: CC-25862-26323
Scope and Contents

Images depict side view portraits, composed of written words, of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Detail from Europa and Her Bull / Furnival, John., 1966

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Identifier: CC-54810-990240
Scope and Contents

This print is depicted on page 41 of Furnival's book "Lost for Words" (2011). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966