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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 110 Collections and/or Records:

Bouffe-Merde, 1968

 Item — Folder 31: [Barcode: 31858072459906]
Identifier: CC-19836-20223
Scope and Contents

Central image is a portrait of Charles De Gaulle flanked by word columns utilizing the repetitive typed word, bouffe (comic), and merde in a fragmented fashion near the portrait. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Christ and Disciples / Myslowski, Tadeusz., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-36077-37854
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1984

Colour Me Dutiful, 1986

 Item — Box 144: [Barcode: 31858072457975]
Identifier: CC-39127-41069
Scope and Contents

The cast paper case is a death mask of a woman. Each drawing is a rubberstamped portrait of a woman's facial features dealing with her response to cosmetics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Counter-Blast, 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-06778-6897
Scope and Contents

This book designed by Harley Parker is a contemporaneous parody of Wyndham Lewis' Vorticist magazine Blast. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

der kunstliche baum, 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-37303-39150
Scope and Contents

This copy, considered a 1st edition, was printed in 1972 but was first published in 1970. The cover of this copy is a printed introduction to Jandl's work. The book is an anthology of Jandl's experimental poetries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

der kunstliche baum 8th Ed. , 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-37302-39149
Scope and Contents

This copy was printed in 1981 but was first published in 1970. Its cover that depicts a photographic head portrait of Jandl differs from the March 1972 printing cover that is a printed introduction to his work. The latter is also held by the Sackner Archive. The book is an anthology of Jandl's experimental poetries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Dernieres Paroles De Louis XVI, 1989

 Item — Folder 13: [Barcode: 31858069877920]
Identifier: CC-25862-26323
Scope and Contents

Images depict side view portraits, composed of written words, of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Double or Nothing, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-11500-11716
Scope and Contents This novel is printed as a facsimile of the typewritten manuscript with its experimental layouts. From the Publisher: "Double or Nothing" is a concrete novel in which the words become physical materials on the page. Federman gives each of these pages a shape or structure, most often a diagram or picture. The words move, cluster, jostle, and collide in a tour de force full of puns, parodies, and imitations. Within these startling and playful structures Federman develops two characters and two narratives. These stories are simultaneous and not chronological. The first deals with the narrator and his effort to make the book itself; the second, the story the narrator intends to tell, presents a young man's arrival in America. The narrator obsesses over making his narrative to the point of not making it. All of his choices for the story are made and remade. He tallies his accounts and checks his provisions. His questioning and indecision force the reader into another radical sense of...
Dates: 1971

Eiffel Tower / Furnival, John., 1968

 Item — Folder 39: [Barcode: 31858072459997]
Identifier: CC-13320-13621
Scope and Contents

This depicts the Eiffel tower as a shaped poem. The text is drawn by Furnival in his unique calligraphic style. A major portion of the poem consists of repetitive printed words, e.g., down under, stale, etage, escalation, etc. On the left side cluste word "rain" are slanted downward over the tower to emulate Apollinaire's famous poem. The rain falls on a cluster of the word "people" assembled at the base of the tower. The poem was reprinted in 1994 and both versions are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Eiffel Tower / Furnival, John., 1966

 Item — Folder 39: [Barcode: 31858072459997]
Identifier: CC-30366-31781
Scope and Contents

This print is depicted on page 43 of Furnival's book "Lost for Words" (2011). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Eiffel Tower May 1968 / Furnival, John., 1968

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-13319-13620
Scope and Contents

The layout and implications of this poem are similar to Arc d'Triomphe May 1968. Here the Eiffel tower formed by calligraphic text substitutes for Arc d'Triomphe and receives ejaculate from a penis shaped with calligraphic text, newspaper headlines and a collaged Albert-Birot print (Paridis). Text of the poem is a sympathetic response to the student rebellion in France during May 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Elephant trapped in trunk / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Furnival J., 1967

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-12404-12630
Scope and Contents

This is a duplicate print from Finlay's portfolio Headlines:Eavelines. It was probably drawn by John Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Els Entra-I-Surts Del Poeta: Ot, 2, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-22435-22859
Scope and Contents

Second of seven books covering J. Brossa's work of the period 1969-1975. Originally published in 1973. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

falamaleikum: gedichte und bilder, 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-37310-39161
Scope and Contents

Spohn contributed ten illustrations to the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Fir-Tree Song, 1965

 Item — Box 624: [Barcode: 31858073143889]
Identifier: CC-38208-40104
Scope and Contents

The poem is laid out in the shape of a fir tree. This copy is from the unsigned, unnumbered edition of 175; 75 copies were signed and numbered by Lucie-Smith. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965