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This poem depicts an abstract rectangular image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The shape of the poem is that of a cat though the text deals with tigers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

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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.

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...

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In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on sequential pages 167-171. The shape of the poem consists of five poems with abstract shapes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 43. The shape of the poem is a dragonfly viewed from above and this mentioned in the concluding phrase, "Stars shine bright on shatter light fate twitch wings finning out inner atmosphere character. Thee.The. That's go with the flow of the delicate Herakleition transparent inner stratasphere dragonfly light wings, folks." The dragonfly's body consists of rhyming nonsense words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 8. The shape is that of the lower half of a New York man's body peeing on the sidewalk. The last word of the title together with the urinary stream documents this shape, "New Yorkers Pissing on the Sidewalk." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 11. The shape is a mandala that surrounds a triangle (from the words in the poem, this signifies a pubic triangle). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on facing pages 40-41. The shape of the poem is a caricatured face in profile on the left page with a cartoon bubble idea on the right page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 63. The shape of the poem appears to be the face of a cartoon character or hobglobin with many eyes. The poem is about "fear." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.