ArchivesSpace at the University of Iowa

This catalogue documents how in recent years, Williams has gone from composing classic concrete poems to adding visual ornamentations to them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

All poems which were written by school children are printed in white on black colored pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This lettered hand-drawn poem is collaged onto a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Wikipedia Vincenzo Accame ( Loano , 1932 - Milan , 1999 ) was a poet , essayist and translatorof Italian. His poetry, essentially rooted in the context of writing, it caters to the visual arts in a constant search and analysis of the possibility of a relationship between word and image, and relationships, creativity, aesthetics, including various types of signs. Such research is also the fundamental theme of his work as an essayist. In 1964 he was the editor for the magazine neoavanguardia Malebolgia . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem describes the sun with seven adjectives that have the letter O. The words are arranged so that the O's are aligned. The place for the final O in the word hollow is empty, with the missing O placed in line on top of the list of words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.