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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

A Basket of Chestnuts / Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus ; Geoffrey Cook, translator ; Higgins D ; Mott M., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-10839-11049
Scope and Contents

G. Cook's translations fron "The Miscellanea of Venantius Fortunatus" is introduced by Dick Higgins who describes Fortunatus as "perhaps the greatest master of Christian poetry." Included in the book are six examples of emblem or shaped poems from the sixth century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Mandala #1 (after C.G. Jung) / Cook, Geoffrey., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-18810-19187
Scope and Contents

This poem is reproduced in Cenizas No.18, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. The word and its letters are typed repetitively to form the shape of a mandala. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Mandala #2 (after C.G. Jung), 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-18808-19185
Scope and Contents

This poem is reproduced in the periodical, Cenizas No.18, held by the Sackner Archive. The words die and desired are comingled in this poem which is typed in the shape of a mandala. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Mandala #3 (after C.G. Jung) / Cook, Geoffrey., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-18809-19186
Scope and Contents

The words "world" and "word" are repetitively typed to form the shape of a mandala. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980