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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Jerusalem 33 / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-27742-28862
Scope and Contents

This poem is printed in Hirschman's book, "Black Alephs," in linear format. Here it is written within the shapes of Hebrew letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Jerusalem LTD / Hirschman, Jack A.; Blake W; Abulafia A., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-27743-28863
Scope and Contents

This poem is printed in Hirschman's book, "Black Alephs," in linear format. Here it is printed in two columns on a gray background of a William Blake Christian religious scene and overlaid with mandulas of a Kabbalistic Hebrew text written by Abraham Abulafia in the 13th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Pendulum] / Mallarme, Stephane; Jack A. Hirschman, translator., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-37193-39037
Scope and Contents

This back cover of Invisible City No.9, 1973, depicts a shaped poem (flask) by Mallarme that was translated and written in his own hand by Jack Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973