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The first 250 pagesof this 374 page book onsist of a wel illustrated discourse on ancient patern poetry. This is followed by a text with examples of concrete poetry and avant garde typography of the 20th century with an emphasis on Polish poets.The bibliography cites the Sackner Catalogue 1984 and a page from Sackner Archive book "Naked Among The Clad" by Kamensky is reproduced on page 261 of Rypson's book. This book could be classified as a reference to ancient concrete poetry as well as contemporary work and arbitralily it is stored on the reference shelf as concrete poetry international. Rypson has also included a discussion with examples of ancient Hebrew pattern poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalogue. The Sackners sold "Proun 2C" by El Lissitzky in this auction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalogue. The Sackners sold "Proun 2C" by El Lissitzky in this auction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Reproduced from an original print of 1591 held by the Mills Arnold Semeiology Collection, the print shows a Kabbalist-like diagram, profile of a man's head, circular word charts, and many para-scientific paragraphs framed by various shaped decorative -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition consisted of Islamic paintings and calligraphy from the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The author indicates that emblem books contained poems based upon religious texts that might be classified as Picture Poems today in terms of visual presentation, viz., an illustration with a poetic caption. The author demonstrates that Herbert's pattern poems were extensions of the Emblematic tradition. He also provides several other examples of Alter poems in the classic literature. According to others, the religious content is not a mandatory feature of emblem poems.The emblem poem depicted in this bibliographic citation was taken from Withers' "A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne" (1635). "The picture shows a rural landscape in which the sun, with kindly countenance, is shooting its rays with an eye at its center. The text is about sight and the eye of contemplation as the human faculty that was especially created by God for its capacity to achieve direct contact with Him." Westerweel adds, The vocabulary and ideas are Neoplatonic and are reminescent of the final...

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Newell devotes entire chapters to the analysis of works by Apollinaire and Dylan Thomas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Although his inscription alludes to a second edition, this was not meant to be. In this first edition, first printing, Higgins tells the history of pattern poetry, documenting more than 2000 works. He divides the book by chapters such as Language and Literature, e.g., Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, French, German, Scandinavian, Dutch and Flemish, British, Hispanic, Polish, and Slavic. He also has a chapter on Languages outside European such as Far East, Citrakavyas and other Indian languages, Islamic, and Languages in which no pattern poetry has been reported. In another chapter, he descibes Acrostics, Telestics, Mesostics, Lapidary Inscriptions, Leonine Verse, Magical Inscriptions and Formulae, Mathematical Arrays and Poems, Musical Analogues of Pattern Poetry, Proteus Poems, Rebuses, Shaped Prose, and Sound Poetry. De. Herbert Francke contributes a chapter on Chinese Pattern Texts and Dr. Kalanath Jha on Sandscrit Citrakavyas. Higgins' glossary of terms follows...

Scope and Contents Higgins tells the history of pattern poetry, documenting more than 2000 works. He divides the book by chapters such as Language and Literature, e.g., Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, French, German, Scandinavian, Dutch and Flemish, British, Hispanic, Polish, and Slavic. He also has a chapter on Languages outside European such as Far East, Citrakavyas and other Indian languages, Islamic, and Languages in which no pattern poetry has been reported. In another chapter, he describes Acrostics, Telestics, Mesostics, Lapidary Inscriptions, Leonine Verse, Magical Inscriptions and Formulae, Mathematical Arrays and Poems, Musical Analogues of Pattern Poetry, Proteus Poems, Rebuses, Shaped Prose, and Sound Poetry. De. Herbert Francke contributes a chapter on Chinese Pattern Texts and Dr. Kalanath Jha on Sandscrit Citrakavyas. Higgins' glossary of terms follows below.ABECEDARIAN VERSE: poetry in which the first word of a line, the subject of the line or all the words of the line are...

Scope and Contents Higgins tells the history of pattern poetry, documenting more than 2000 works. He divides the book by chapters such as Language and Literature, e.g., Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, French, German, Scandinavian, Dutch and Flemish, British, Hispanic, Polish, and Slavic. He also has a chapter on Languages outside European such as Far East, Citrakavyas and other Indian languages, Islamic, and Languages in which no pattern poetry has been reported. In another chapter, he describes Acrostics, Telestics, Mesostics, Lapidary Inscriptions, Leonine Verse, Magical Inscriptions and Formulae, Mathematical Arrays and Poems, Musical Analogues of Pattern Poetry, Proteus Poems, Rebuses, Shaped Prose, and Sound Poetry. De. Herbert Francke contributes a chapter on Chinese Pattern Texts and Dr. Kalanath Jha on Sandscrit Citrakavyas. Higgins' glossary of terms follows below.ABECEDARIAN VERSE: poetry in which the first word of a line, the subject of the line or all the words of the line are...

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Includes annotated listing of ancient books dealing with cryptography, ancient languages, shorthand, language (philosophy), sign languages, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Almost all of this anthology is devoted to linear poetry with the following exceptions: 1) Stepjane Mallarme's concrete poem, "Cette Adorable Bague" (1866) on page 684, 2)William Blake's "Laocoon," a calligraphic picture pom on page 709, 3) Shaker visionary drawings (1843) on pages 710-711, 4) Edward Lear's callgraphic visual poems (1864), on oage 713, 5) Lewis Carroll's shaped calligraphic poem, "A Mouse" on page713 and 6) Apollinaire's concrete poem, "The Bleeding Heart..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Almost all of this anthology is devoted to linear poetry with the following exceptions: 1) Stepjane Mallarme's concrete poem, "Cette Adorable Bague" (1866) on page 684, 2)William Blake's "Laocoon," a calligraphic picture pom on page 709, 3) Shaker visionary drawings (1843) on pages 710-711, 4) Edward Lear's callgraphic visual poems (1864), on oage 713, 5) Lewis Carroll's shaped calligraphic poem, "A Mouse" on page713 and 6) Apollinaire's concrete poem, "The Bleeding Heart..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Jacques Hnizdovsky provided woodcut illustrations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stored in Mathias Goeritz box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The first section of this book deals with Morales Prado's definitions of experimental poetry together with an illustrated portion of 31 examples from ancient pattern poetry up to the Noigandres group of poets. This is followed by an anthology of examples in black and white and colored of concrete and visual poems. The final section of this book provides brief biographical and bibliographical information about each poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Raoul Hausmann's "sound-reel," a sound poem held by the Sackner Archive is depicted on page 146. It depicts the hand writtem added letters, signs and numbers that are often not present in other reproductions of the poem. However, it lacks the hand printed inscription of the title at its bottom and the typed R. Hausmann signature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.