Skip to main content

Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 110 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

Henri et Jean, 1977

 Item — Folder 32: [Barcode: 31858072459914]
Identifier: CC-19781-20168
Scope and Contents

The large letters, H and J, stand for Henri and Jean as a celebration of their 25th wedding anniversary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Iuvenilia Loeti: Raccolta di Poeti Latini Medievali, 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-20511-20908
Scope and Contents

This is a survey of medieval, Latin shaped poetry with critical text. Several pages by Rabano Mauro (Hrabamus Maurus) are reproduced from a book that is also held by the Sackner Archive. The marginata was inserted by Dick Higgins, the previous owner of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

J'Attends l'Homme!, 1969

 Item — Folder 20: [Barcode: 31858072459799]
Identifier: CC-19775-20162
Scope and Contents

The text of this print consists of several repetitions of the word, joie (joy) with a single word, jois, placed near the bottom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Jim Andrews, 2004

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-42379-44389
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 2004

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

Le Colporteur d'Images: [Au Point Du Jour], 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-41629-43619
Scope and Contents

ThIs drawing is included in a book that follows the romantic adventures of A (L'Amoureuse) and M (Le Marchand) though a poetic, typographic landscape in Paris. Berman is the graphic designer and illustrator of this humorous and sophisticated book. Quesemand is the author of the text. This drawing 's main image is a black building on the left in the night with the day on the right. One of the buildings is labeled "Cochin Hospital." Quesemand's poetry is printed on the extreme right. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Le Petit Peignot: Dictionnaire de Mots-Images, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-29115-30460
Scope and Contents

Peignot provides examples of word-images along with comments in an alphabetic listing. He uses alterations of letter spacing and boldness of the Futura typeface, repetition of letters, anagraphic presentation, variations in the arrangement of letters, mirror imaging, and punctuation marks to enhance and visually define the meaning of words. The poems are related to those found in another book published by Peignot in the same year, Toutes les Pommes se Croquent. Both books are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Letters from Kythera, Too , 1996

 Item — Folder 80: [Barcode: 31858072538394]
Identifier: CC-16396-16746
Scope and Contents

The poster printed on heavy glossy stock depicts an abstracted shape of a nude feminine torso with its surface covered by a grid of randomly selected typewritten letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

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

Lilliput, No. 9: MDZ, 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-31991-33519
Scope and Contents

This series was edited by Luciano Caruso. Stored with Luciano Caruso material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

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'rt, 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-14564-14875
Scope and Contents

This piece was commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. A calligraphed, rubberstamped tag meaning magic denotes a cross-section of lung, with the clear center the airway. The image relates to breathing as a binary event, i.e, in & out, full & empty, dirty & clean. The red ink elements symbolize oxygen and the violet elements, carbon dioxide. Dautricourt was inspired by a book by Souzanelle on Human Body Symbolism, viz., the pulmonary tree in Hebrew is rea, but if pronounced roe meaning to see, this word could be interpreted as "light in breath." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Marriage / Gratner, Saiya Elizabeth., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-10584-10789
Scope and Contents

This poem in the shape of a leg was composed by Gratner who is the wife of Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993