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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Apollinaire: A Variation / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary; Apollinaire G., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28817-30135
Scope and Contents

This poem, based on "Il Pleut" by Apollinaire, has drawings of little leaves instead of the letters. This symbolizes the falling of leaves in the fall rather than rain as in the original poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Basne Obrazy / Apollinaire, Guillaume ; Seifert J ; Marinetti FT ; Breton A ; Nezval V ; Rabelais., 1965

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Identifier: CC-25600-26058
Scope and Contents

Includes a review of French shaped poetry written prior to Mallarme. In this book, calligraphic poems of Apollinaire have been translated into the Czech language -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Caligramas y Recortes en Papel / Zeller, Ludwig ; Apollinaire G., 1969 - 1987

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Identifier: CC-29944-31335
Scope and Contents

The exhibition consisted of 30 calligraphic poems cut from paper, numbers 19 to 25 were later published in a portfolio, "Siete Caligramas," a work also held by the Sackner Archive. In this catalogue, Zeller expains how he found the text for his first calligram in a dream. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969 - 1987

Calligrams / Apollinaire, Guillaume ; Anne Hyde Greet, translator., 1970

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Identifier: CC-24740-25193
Scope and Contents

Calligrams are presented in French and English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Echoes Series: D.H. Lawrences Autumn Rain as G.Apollinaire's Il Pleut / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Apollinaire G., 1995

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Identifier: CC-12964-13256
Scope and Contents

Finlay laid out D.H. Lawrence's poem, "Autumn Rain" in the style of Apollinaire's Il Pleut. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Retorno Al Oasis / Zeller, Ludwig ; Apollinaire G ; Wald S., 2010

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Identifier: CC-58651-10001883
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Ludwig Zeller Ocampo (1927-) is a Chilean, surreal visual artist/poet ow living in Mexico. His father came from Chile from Germany to work as a manufacturer of dynamite to the copper mines. From childhood he was a voracious reader and thanks to that learned poetry. Along with his first wife, Wera Zeller, translated to Spanish German Romantics. He was a cCutting-edge innovator and directed the Gallery of Ministry of Education in Chile from 1952-1968. That same year he left the gallery, founded the literary magazine and the Moon Coffee House in Villavicencio Street in Aubrey neighborhood of Santiago. In 1970, he organized the exhibition Surrealism in Chile in the Catholic University, which, in addition to his works, exhibited those of Roberto Matta, Nemesio Antunez, Enrique Zanartu, Opazo Rodolfo Sepulveda Viterbo, Valentina Cruz, Susana Wald and others. He left Chile the following year, along with his wife, artist Susana Wald, and three of her four children. They...
Dates: 2010

Secondary English Book One / Sadler, Rex Kevin ; Hayllar, T.A.S. ; Smith WJ ; Apollinaire G ; Gross R., 1983

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Identifier: CC-02102-2140
Scope and Contents

William Jay Smith's poem "Seal" is reproduced. Contains chapter on sound-words, i.e. Onomatopoeia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Selected Poems / Apollinaire, Guillaume ; Oliver Bernard, translator., 1965

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Identifier: CC-24279-24731
Scope and Contents

Poems in this book are translations from the text of Apollinaire's "Oeuvres Poetiques," Editions Gallimard 1959. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

[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

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Identifier: CC-26002-26464
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1968

Znamy a Neznamy / Apollinaire, Guillaume., 1981

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Identifier: CC-27178-27653
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a translation of Apollinaire's poetry into Czech language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981