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Shaped poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:

[12 Poems] (240463-150663), 1963

 Item — Box 643
Identifier: CC-08756-8930
Scope and Contents

This work consists of 12 concrete and conventional with handwritten corrections. The poem, POEME BLANc (140663) consists of the title with an empty space below it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Accidental Nature, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-02744-2787
Scope and Contents

Depicts Sutherland's rendition of an avalanche. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Aliquotality, 1973

 Item — Folder 39: [Barcode: 31858072459997]
Identifier: CC-13316-13617
Scope and Contents

Images consist of language towers, number tower, the Statue of Liberty, a cowboy and Uncle Sam dipping an Englishman into a pot of tea. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" on pages 58-59. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Alphabet Delight, 2007

 Item — Box 198: [Barcode: 31858072459682]
Identifier: CC-46563-49292
Scope and Contents

This dinner set was produced with the help of George Mill. Each plate and the napkin contain a different design composed of letters from the Serbian alphabet. This is a first edition of a unique limited collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Arc d'Triomphe May 1968, 1968

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-13318-13619
Scope and Contents

The print depicts the Arc d'Triomphe as a shaped poem formed by collaged newsprint and calligraphic text. This Parisian structure is depicted facing the Avenue des Grandes Armees. The latter serves as a metaphor for part of an ejaculate from another of the print, viz., a penis shaped from collaged newsprint & calligraphic text that is a metaphor for the young revolutionaries in the May 1968 student led rebellion in France. Texts in the poem support the May 1968 action against the government. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Au Pair Girl 1, 1964

 Item — Box 640: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-56273-9999711
Scope and Contents

The photograph appears to be a distorted image of the repeticious title placed on a loose fabric. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Au Pair Girl 2, 1964

 Item — Box 640: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-56274-9999712
Scope and Contents

The photograph appears to be a distorted image of the repeticious title placed on a loose fabric. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Collected Poems Volume Fifteen: Gibbering His Wares / Cobbing, Bob ; Manson P., 1996

 Item — Box 388: [Barcode: 31858072463676]
Identifier: CC-31689-33198
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by Peter Manson. The final section of this book consists of annotations to the poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Colour Me Dutiful, 1986

 Item — Box 144: [Barcode: 31858072457975]
Identifier: CC-39127-41069
Scope and Contents

The cast paper case is a death mask of a woman. Each drawing is a rubberstamped portrait of a woman's facial features dealing with her response to cosmetics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Counter-Blast, 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-06778-6897
Scope and Contents

This book designed by Harley Parker is a contemporaneous parody of Wyndham Lewis' Vorticist magazine Blast. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Detail from Europa and Her Bull, 1966

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-54810-990240
Scope and Contents

This print is depicted on page 41 of Furnival's book "Lost for Words" (2011). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Eiffel Tower, May 1968

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-13319-13620
Scope and Contents

The layout and implications of this poem are similar to Arc d'Triomphe May 1968. Here the Eiffel tower formed by calligraphic text substitutes for Arc d'Triomphe and receives ejaculate from a penis shaped with calligraphic text, newspaper headlines and a collaged Albert-Birot print (Paridis). Text of the poem is a sympathetic response to the student rebellion in France during May 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: May 1968

Eiffel Tower, 1966

 Item — Folder 39: [Barcode: 31858072459997]
Identifier: CC-30366-31781
Scope and Contents

This print is depicted on page 43 of Furnival's book "Lost for Words" (2011). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Eiffel Tower, 1968

 Item — Folder 39: [Barcode: 31858072459997]
Identifier: CC-13320-13621
Scope and Contents

This depicts the Eiffel tower as a shaped poem. The text is drawn by Furnival in his unique calligraphic style. A major portion of the poem consists of repetitive printed words, e.g., down under, stale, etage, escalation, etc. On the left side cluste word "rain" are slanted downward over the tower to emulate Apollinaire's famous poem. The rain falls on a cluster of the word "people" assembled at the base of the tower. The poem was reprinted in 1994 and both versions are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Elephant Trapped in Trunk, 1967

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-12404-12630
Scope and Contents

This is a duplicate print from Finlay's portfolio Headlines:Eavelines. It was probably drawn by John Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Fir-Tree Song, 1965

 Item — Box 624: [Barcode: 31858073143889]
Identifier: CC-38208-40104
Scope and Contents

The poem is laid out in the shape of a fir tree. This copy is from the unsigned, unnumbered edition of 175; 75 copies were signed and numbered by Lucie-Smith. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965