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Shaped poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

Five Experimental Poems, 1975

 Item — Box 619: [Barcode: 31858072461043]
Identifier: CC-38488-40395
Scope and Contents

A seach of Grice's publications on the WEB revealed that he has written non-fiction and fictional works (Penguin Press) mostly for young readers. However, no poetry books were listed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Four Experimental Poems, 1975

 Item — Box 619: [Barcode: 31858072461043]
Identifier: CC-38489-40396
Scope and Contents

A search of Grice's publications on the WEB revealed that he has written non-fiction and fictional works (Penguin Press) mostly for young readers. However, no poetry books were listed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Gorgona: Stupidogram, No. 9, 1966

 Item — Box 608: [Barcode: 31858073143558]
Identifier: CC-62679-48817
Scope and Contents

Each book consists of a one page drawing entitled "Stupidogramm" consisting of a grid of commas with an area enclosed by an ink line drawing. Not one of the 200 copies is alike. This publication is stored in the 'R' flat files drawer. Note that Roth uses the name Diter Rot for this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Hebrew Micrography: One Thousand Years of Art in Script , 1981

 Item — Box 318: [Barcode: 31858072490778]
Identifier: CC-26371-26838
Scope and Contents

The author writes, "Israeli artist Jacob El-Hanani has created his own variation on calligram micrography in his Constructivist style, using minute cursive Hebrew script to form a textured carpet of writing. Although the result differs from the traditional micrograph and calligram, his perseverance proves El-Hanani to be a true descendant of the Medieval masorah scribe." The Sackner Archive holds a work like Arvin has described. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Inside the Tree, 1988

 Item — Folder 90: [Barcode: 31858074697826]
Identifier: CC-35928-37692
Scope and Contents

The print consists of rubberstamped words of the title that depict a tree in cross-section. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

La Nuit du prisonnier, 1945

 Item — Box 613: [Barcode: 31858072460995]
Identifier: CC-32984-34604
Scope and Contents

The cover and title page depict a poem shaped like bars in a prison cell with the repeated words LA NUIT and the words "du prisonnier" in the middle. The book includes a reproduction of a Valentiner Hugo black and white portrait of Guy Levis-Mano. The name "Jean Garamond" printed on the cover as responsible for the images is a non-de-plume for Guy Levis-Mano. This one of 40 copies of the book is printed on Holland paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1945

L'Homme de Parole, 1997

 Item — Box 272: [Barcode: 31858072460938]
Identifier: CC-34475-36172
Scope and Contents

The book represents a man's body with a white, plastic spiral spine, a face and hair made of cut, smaller spiral spine material, a heart shaped heart printed with "je t'aime," and appropriately shaped booklets for the arms, abdomen, legs and penis. Crombie wrote the Sackners that these book objects were too difficult to transport and make so that none of the editions were completed as stated in the colophon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Movement Headquarters (Relocated to) San Francisco, California, 2010

 Item — Box 332: [Barcode: 31858072491016]
Identifier: CC-51110-72195
Scope and Contents

Albert Behar is the Sackners' grandson. This work is stored in the Albert Behar Archive box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

[National Poetry Day 6th October 1994] / Cobbing, Bob ; Morgan E., 1994

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-20546-20943
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a reprinting of several previously published poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

On Impulse / Cobbing, Bob., 1994

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-20550-20947
Scope and Contents

This book provides s sampling of Cobbing's previously published poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Orange Au Pair Girl, 1964

 Item — Box 640: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-11865-12086
Scope and Contents

The size of this edition is not known nor is it listed in Finlay's book Prints 1963-1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Plakat: Loakrime. No.9 / Philip Ward., 1967

 Item — Box 396: [Barcode: 31858072461605]
Identifier: CC-57147-51975
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive also holds the original typed manuscript for this poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Includes correspondence between Ward and John Furnival about Loakrime and poems sent to Ian Breakwell

Dates: 1967

Poem d'amour et de revolution, 1998

 Item — Box 638: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-41152-43134
Scope and Contents

One thousand copies were created for Plage magazine, Paris, France. Diotallevi writes that "this is a unique example with hand intervention." The piece is shaped like a heart. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Senza Titolo, 1989

 Item — Box 638: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-15677-16006
Scope and Contents

The letraset drawing reproduced on page 13 of this book is held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Slovovyd, 1999

 Item — Box 616: [Barcode: 31858072461019]
Identifier: CC-34018-35694
Scope and Contents

There is an explanation and translation of the concrete poems in English at the back of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Splitting of the Sea, 1990

 Item — Folder 34: [Barcode: 31858072459930]
Identifier: CC-24027-24477
Scope and Contents

The entire text of the Book of Exodus from the Old Testament is written in Hebrew creating a picture of the Red Sea parting and the Israelites passing through. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990