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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Lost & Found Characters / Butella, Alan., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-36424-38216
Scope and Contents

The author/printer used letters, numbers and symbols to create typographical explorations. "Each page of vellum with characteristic dancing type is interspersed with a page holding a central emblem which is also made of type."Doug Kisor writes in the introduction," Unyielding alphabets shaken loose from their disciplined path gather in new patterns. Moody riddles, shifting the tool of the specific into an expressive sign, their existence indicating a place, a path, an idea, a vision, a collective consciousness. Zoomorphic forms that translate into complex stories, embracing whimsy, myth, and ritual." The small typographic emblems in the book are also featured in a stamp sheet print held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Lost & Found Characters / Butella, Alan., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-33738-35401
Scope and Contents

The author/printer used letters, numbers and symbols to create typographical explorations. "Each page of vellum with characteristic dancing type is interspersed with a page holding a central emblem which is also made of type."Doug Kisor writes in the introduction," Unyielding alphabets shaken loose from their disciplined path gather in new patterns. Moody riddles, shifting the tool of the specific into an expressive sign, their existence indicating a place, a path, an idea, a vision, a collective consciousness. Zoomorphic forms that translate into complex stories, embracing whimsy, myth, and ritual." The small typographic emblems in the bookare also featured in a stamp sheet print held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997