Shaped poetry
Found in 781 Collections and/or Records:
Unpublished: [A PERSON NOT] [43] / Smith, William Jay., 1958
The figure of a man in a coma being attacked by commas is at the bottom of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Unpublished: [ANIMOSITY] [29] / Smith, William Jay., 1958
Unpublished: [COLLOQUY] [30] / Smith, William Jay., 1958
Unpublished: [DEAN OF WOMEN 1] [27] / Smith, William Jay., 1958
In this first version the poem is typed above the typed face and the title beneath. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Unpublished: [DEAN OF WOMEN 2] [28] / Smith, William Jay., 1958
In this second version the poem is placed in a square around the typed face and the title is below. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Unpublished: [DIVER 1] [35] / Smith, William Jay., 1958
Unpublished: [DIVER 2] [36] / Smith, William Jay., 1958
Unpublished: [DIVER 3] [37] / Smith, William Jay., 1958
Unpublished: [LOOKING AT THE STARS] [46] / Smith, William Jay., 1958
The figure of a man lying on the grass at night with his legs in the air is crossed out with graphite markings. The stars are asterisks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Unpublished: MAN ENJOYING A CONTOUR CHAIR] [44] / Smith, William Jay., 1958
The figure of a man enjoying sitting in a contour chair. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Unpublished: Man Enjoying Looking Up At The Stars [46] / Smith, William Jay., 1958
The figure of a man lying on the grass at night with his legs in the air is crossed out with graphite markings. The caption is changed to "This man enjoys lying flat on the ground and looking at the stars". The stars are asterisks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Unpublished: [PEOPLE ENJOYING] [41] / Smith, William Jay., 1958
A figure of a man on skis reads "As you can clearly see this man loves to ski." A figure of a man swinging a golf club reads "This man enjoys playing golf." There is also a typed ball on a tee at the bottom of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Unpublished: [SKIER 1] [38] / Smith, William Jay., 1958
Unpublished: [SKIER 2] [39] / Smith, William Jay., 1958
Unpublished: [SKIER 3] [40] / Smith, William Jay., 1958
Unpublished: [SNAKE 1] [26] / Smith, William Jay., 1958
This first version of the poem SNAKE reads "good by old slitherer god i was scared." The typo of god was corrected in version 2 and an exclamation point was added at the end. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Unpublished: [SNAKE 2] [25] / Smith, William Jay., 1958
The poem in the shape of a snake reads "good by old slitherer god was i scared!" This second version ends with an exclamation point and corrects the typo in the word "god" in the first version -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Unpublished: [this man loves to dive] [45] / Smith, William Jay., 1958
The figure of a man enjoying sitting in a contour chair is at the bottom of the page.The top is a figure diving off a board. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Untitled] / Apollinaire, Guillaume ; Phillips T ; Sharkey JJ ; Henri A ; Baruchello GF ; Blake P ; Finlay IH ; Chopin H ; Furnival J ; Cobbing B ; Cox K ; Heidsieck B ; Spacagna J ; Williams E., 1968
Contains reproduction of handcolored images of Apollinaire's calligraphic poems from the exhibition catalog of Irene Lagut/Leopold Survage, 1917, a book held by the Sackner Archive. The recording is of Apollinaire's reading of his poem "Le Pont Mirbeau," in 1914. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.