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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 799 Collections and/or Records:

Dez Poemas para Jose Bezerra Gomes / Cirne, Moacy., 1993

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Identifier: CC-20651-21053
Scope and Contents

Edited by Falves Silva. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Die Neuzeithihe Rezeption des Mittelalterlichen Figurengedicktes in Kreuzform / Ernst, Ulrich ; Maurus H ; Apollinaire G ; Jandl E ; Seaman D ; Caruso L ; Kostelanetz R ; Koch R ; Herrick R ; Goll Y., 1986

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Identifier: CC-13781-14086
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This is a reprint of a paper presented at a symposium entitled "Mittelalter-Rezeption." Ernst describes poems in the shape of crosses from ancient to contemporary times. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Dim Wim in His Crazy Windmill / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12141-12365
Scope and Contents

The poem is presented in the shape of a windmill. Wim refers to Wim Meulenlamp, the co-author of the book "Follies a National Trust" which was antagonistically critical of Finlay's Temple Garden. The poem rhymes Dim and Wim. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Documents Iconographiques / Apollinaire, Guillaume., 1965

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Identifier: CC-27179-27654
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The handcolored images from the exhibition catalog, Irene Lagut/Leopold Survage published in 1917, a book also held by the Sackner Archive, are depicted. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Double or Nothing, 1971

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Identifier: CC-11500-11716
Scope and Contents This novel is printed as a facsimile of the typewritten manuscript with its experimental layouts. From the Publisher: "Double or Nothing" is a concrete novel in which the words become physical materials on the page. Federman gives each of these pages a shape or structure, most often a diagram or picture. The words move, cluster, jostle, and collide in a tour de force full of puns, parodies, and imitations. Within these startling and playful structures Federman develops two characters and two narratives. These stories are simultaneous and not chronological. The first deals with the narrator and his effort to make the book itself; the second, the story the narrator intends to tell, presents a young man's arrival in America. The narrator obsesses over making his narrative to the point of not making it. All of his choices for the story are made and remade. He tallies his accounts and checks his provisions. His questioning and indecision force the reader into another radical sense of...
Dates: 1971

Double or Nothing / Federman, Raymond., 1971

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Identifier: CC-11499-11715
Scope and Contents This novel is printed as a facsimile of the typewritten manuscript with its experimental layouts. From the Publisher: "Double or Nothing" is a concrete novel in which the words become physical materials on the page. Federman gives each of these pages a shape or structure, most often a diagram or picture. The words move, cluster, jostle, and collide in a tour de force full of puns, parodies, and imitations. Within these startling and playful structures Federman develops two characters and two narratives. These stories are simultaneous and not chronological. The first deals with the narrator and his effort to make the book itself; the second, the story the narrator intends to tell, presents a young man's arrival in America. The narrator obsesses over making his narrative to the point of not making it. All of his choices for the story are made and remade. He tallies his accounts and checks his provisions. His questioning and indecision force the reader into another radical sense of...
Dates: 1971

[Dove] / Bremer, Claus., 1968

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Identifier: CC-23508-23953
Scope and Contents

Claus Bremer was born in 1924 and died in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Dream Chamber / Etrog, Sorel ; Joyce J., 1982

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Identifier: CC-39024-40962
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The Sackner Archive holds a another copy of the "Dream Chamber" that was combined with John Cage's "About Roaratorio" published in 1982. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

dsh for anselm hollo (120863) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Hollo A., 1963

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Identifier: CC-56079-9999526
Scope and Contents This is poem appears to resemble the silhouette of a an individual doing a headstand on a chair. Wikipedia: Anselm Paul Alexis Hollo (April 12, 1934 "“ January 29, 2013) was a Finnish poet and translator. He lived in the United States from 1967 until his death in January of 2013. His father, Juho Aukusti Hollo (1885"“1967) "” who liked to be known as "J. A." Hollo "” was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, an essayist, and a major translator of literature into Finnish. His mother was Iris Antonina Anna Walden, a music teacher and daughter of organic chemist Paul Walden. He lived for eight years in the United Kingdom producing three children: Hannes, Kaarina, and Tamsin, with his first wife, poet Josephine Clare. He was a permanent resident in the United States from the late 1960s until his death. At the time of his death, he resided in Boulder, Colorado with his second wife, artist Jane Dalrymple-Hollo. Hollo published more than forty titles of poetry in the UK...
Dates: 1963