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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 781 Collections and/or Records:

Teth / Murphy, Sheila E.., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-06079-6193
Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Text II / Hirsal, Josef; Grogerova, Bohumila., 1962

 Item
Identifier: CC-08859-9034
Dates: 1962
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Texts by John Donne and Henry David Thoreau / Simon, Arlyn., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-02152-2190
Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

Th Fifth Sun / bissett, bill., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-20950-21359
Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Th Jinx Ship Nd Othr Trips / bissett, bill ; levy da., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-23620-24067
Scope and Contents

This is a major compendium of bissett's diverse styles in poetry and art and is the author's first book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Allegheny Star Route / Wagner, D.r., editor ; Kryss, Tom L., editor ; Bukowski C ; Blazek D ; Eigner L ; levy da ; Plymell C ; Wagner Dr ; Norse H ; McCord H ; Richmond S ; Baxter E ; rjs ; Taylor K ; Miller B., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-24760-25213
Scope and Contents

Cover was done by Reed Thomason. A silkscreened print of a flower laid into the book was made by Ruth Kryss. The Asphodel catalogue 199, 1999 lists T.L. Kryss as the editor. rjs who contributed a poem alu aka R.J. Sigmund. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The (Almost) Instant Anthology '88 / Daurio, Beverley, editor ; Jones, editor ; Nichol, bp, editor ; curry jw ; Dedora B ; Joe ; Kilpatrick N ; Necakov L ; Venright S., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-30399-31818
Scope and Contents

This publication was done at the 2nd Toronto Small Press Book Fair. Writers were invited to submit one page of poetry or prose to the editors four days before the Fair. Nancy Kilpatrick contributed a poem shaped as a side view of a hamburger on a bun. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Art Store / Anonymous., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-26593-27062
Scope and Contents

The listing of gallery artists is set in a pattern poem shaped like a vase. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Bad Business of Media Merger / Scher, Paula., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-33721-35384
Scope and Contents

Paula Scher illustrates an article with the letters AOLTW made up of the brand names in the two merging companies. the article was written by Tom Rosenstiel and Bill Kovach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Bead Curtain / Smith, William Jay., 1957

 Item
Identifier: CC-42602-44618
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts single poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Books Lost to the Fire in the Library of Alexandria Revealed Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37358-39211
Scope and Contents

In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 19. The shape of the poem appears to be a Greek temple with columns. The titles of the books listed in the poem are made-up raunch phrases, several well known in old and ancient jokes, e.g, "The Yellow River by I.P. Daily; The Aged Car by Denton Fender; The Random Jockstrap by Wun Hung Lo etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

The Busses / Benson, Steve., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-20916-21325
Scope and Contents

Also designated Tuumba 32. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Club Ha Ha Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37353-39205
Scope and Contents In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on pages 109 and 110. The shape is that of a deer with antlers perched upon an intricate goblet that might have been made adapted from Beatrice Ward's "The Crystal Goblet." Daniels describes his poems prints in a personal communication to Marvin Sackner as follows: "Its kind of like walking up to a painting and examining the brushstrokes. The fonts in giant form are"new" and "strange" in a way. Also they make a design of their own. Plus I raise and lower fonts to make curves. People see them as if they never saw them before. Good old Times Roman invented by the Romans to incise sharp shadows for readability on their stone cut signs and developed by The London Times in the 19th Century to acheive clarity while cramming words tight in columns has a new life! Some young people I met at Epoetry 2001 in Buffalo this Spring seem to see me as a kind of "hero" who has "figured out how to get people to read his poems hiding...
Dates: 2001
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

The Cranes Tower over Our Terrain / Fleming, Joseph., 1992

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Identifier: CC-10994-11208
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Crescent City Blues / Sovern, William David., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-02908-2952
Scope and Contents

The cover reproduces a visual poetic collage with a fragment of a map of Akron, Ohio. The poems in this book are laid out such that their right borders form cresents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Eiffel Tower, 1995

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13314-13615
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint on different paper (Arches 88) of the same print from the sixties -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / John Furnival

The Example of Edward Taylor / Keller, Karl., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-08062-8222
Scope and Contents

This biography of Edward Taylor (1642-1729) includes a single shaped poem on page 168. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Famkiliar: One Rainy Day in May / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2015

 Item
Identifier: CC-60864-10003721
Scope and Contents

This is the first volume of an announced 27 volumes that Dnaielewski proposes to produce.The plot takes place on a single rainy day and follows the story of a girl named Xanther.The plot ranges in time, in place and with characters in bewildering, creative typography, design, language and poetry. As Tom LeClair wrote in his New York Times Book Review,"To reinforce the exoticism of his material Danielewski invents a nearly opaque pidgen English, interspersed with Russian and Chinese printed characters..two other story lines...Los Angeles subcultures." John Williams adds in his review, "Danielewski's novels are brillintly produced, with text that curves away from the page margins, piles on itself until it becomes unintelligible blocks, and changes colores to represent different charctrers or themes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2015
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Fire Gap: A Poem with Two Tails / Harrison, Tony; Caine, Michael Christopher., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-48404-69430
Scope and Contents

The free verse is in the shape of two snakes and recounts Harrison's encounter with a rattle snake. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Gates of Paradise / Daniels, David ; Ouspensky P., 2000

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Identifier: CC-37141-38984
Scope and Contents John Strausbaugh, writing in New York Press, August 2-8, 2000, Volume 13, Number 31 commented on this book and the author as follows. "Kenneth Goldsmith came by the office to show me a book of poetry he knew I'd appreciate. Not a normal book of poetry, and not published. It's a black ledger book, fat with 394 8-1/2-by- 11 pages containing more than 350 poems. And not just any poems. These poems form shapes, black & white computer printout silhouettes of birds and men, stars and trees, urns and amphorae; an elephant of words, a poem shaped like a stiff penis, one shaped like a toilet in the White House, others shaped like a rectal thermometer, a church, a lemon, a seal, a snake, a vacuum cleaner, a flowering vagina, a winged griffin, a diagram of a traffic accident, a mushroom cloud, a Mixmaster, a gun, a New Yorker "pissing on the sidewalk." Apollinaire and the Chinese pictograms called Phoenix Dragon writing are the most obvious antecedents. Some are as funny and fantastical...
Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

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