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The shape of the poem is in the form of a five legged creature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This poem depicts a highly stylized figure with a crown above a black space where the face should be. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The shape of the poem is in the form of a camel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This poem depicts an abstract rectangular image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The shape of the poem is in the form of a silhouetted suit with Goldsmith's head depicted by the title of the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These pieces were downloaded from Daniel's website, The Gates of Paradise. Daniels combines a brief biography of Marvin Sackner (where did he get all this information?) with Sackner's interests in poetic art and work in medical science in a multi-colored shaped poem of the lungs. Each of the four sheets has the same text but the colors are different. Daniels titled the pages, "Rose Vapored Dawn Air,"Light Breathing Day Air," Violet Swallowed Dusk Air" and "Shadow Swollen Night Air." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These prints that were originally downloaded from Daniel's website, The Gates of Paradise, in letter format have now been enlarged with ink jet printing. Daniels combines a brief biography of Marvin Sackner (where did he get all this information?) with Sackner's interests in poetic art and work in medical science in a multi-colored shaped poem of the lungs. Each of the four sheets has the same text but the colors are different. Daniels titled the pages, "Rose Vapored Dawn Air,"Light Breathing Day Air," Violet Swallowed Dusk Air" and "Shadow Swollen Night Air." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There are several large shaped poems within this work, e.g., a fish, vase, and apple. The text is bawdy, e.g., sheep's cunt is a frequent phrase. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image of this poem is that of a highly stylized figure with a Fez on his head. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The shape of the poem is that of a cat though the text deals with tigers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The shape of the poem is in the form of a cat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 19. The shape of the poem appears to be a Greek temple with columns. The titles of the books listed in the poem are made-up raunch phrases, several well known in old and ancient jokes, e.g, "The Yellow River by I.P. Daily; The Aged Car by Denton Fender; The Random Jockstrap by Wun Hung Lo etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on pages 109 and 110. The shape is that of a deer with antlers perched upon an intricate goblet that might have been made adapted from Beatrice Ward's "The Crystal Goblet." Daniels describes his poems prints in a personal communication to Marvin Sackner as follows: "Its kind of like walking up to a painting and examining the brushstrokes. The fonts in giant form are"new" and "strange" in a way. Also they make a design of their own. Plus I raise and lower fonts to make curves. People see them as if they never saw them before. Good old Times Roman invented by the Romans to incise sharp shadows for readability on their stone cut signs and developed by The London Times in the 19th Century to acheive clarity while cramming words tight in columns has a new life! Some young people I met at Epoetry 2001 in Buffalo this Spring seem to see me as a kind of "hero" who has "figured out how to get people to read his poems hiding...

Scope and Contents John Strausbaugh, writing in New York Press, August 2-8, 2000, Volume 13, Number 31 commented on this book and the author as follows. "Kenneth Goldsmith came by the office to show me a book of poetry he knew I'd appreciate. Not a normal book of poetry, and not published. It's a black ledger book, fat with 394 8-1/2-by- 11 pages containing more than 350 poems. And not just any poems. These poems form shapes, black & white computer printout silhouettes of birds and men, stars and trees, urns and amphorae; an elephant of words, a poem shaped like a stiff penis, one shaped like a toilet in the White House, others shaped like a rectal thermometer, a church, a lemon, a seal, a snake, a vacuum cleaner, a flowering vagina, a winged griffin, a diagram of a traffic accident, a mushroom cloud, a Mixmaster, a gun, a New Yorker "pissing on the sidewalk." Apollinaire and the Chinese pictograms called Phoenix Dragon writing are the most obvious antecedents. Some are as funny and fantastical...