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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 78 Collections and/or Records:

Susan Speechley Lukito 1958- ; One: Sleepburn , 2004

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-42373-44383
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 2004

TD. Eye Ha / Hansen, Al., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-39968-41935
Scope and Contents

The image depicts a stylized 'eye.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

The Books Lost to the Fire in the Library of Alexandria Revealed Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37358-39211
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2001

The Club Ha Ha Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37353-39205
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...
Dates: 2001

The Eiffel Tower, 1995

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13314-13615
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint on different paper (Arches 88) of the same print from the sixties -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Light Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37364-39217
Scope and Contents

In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on sequential pages 167-171. The shape of the poem consists of five poems with abstract shapes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Multi-Wing Multi-Being Multi-Sing Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37361-39214
Scope and Contents

In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 43. The shape of the poem is a dragonfly viewed from above and this mentioned in the concluding phrase, "Stars shine bright on shatter light fate twitch wings finning out inner atmosphere character. Thee.The. That's go with the flow of the delicate Herakleition transparent inner stratasphere dragonfly light wings, folks." The dragonfly's body consists of rhyming nonsense words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Paean to Various New, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37354-39206
Scope and Contents

In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 8. The shape is that of the lower half of a New York man's body peeing on the sidewalk. The last word of the title together with the urinary stream documents this shape, "New Yorkers Pissing on the Sidewalk." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Petit Eternal Return Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37355-39208
Scope and Contents

In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 11. The shape is a mandala that surrounds a triangle (from the words in the poem, this signifies a pubic triangle). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Self-Portrait Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37362-39215
Scope and Contents

In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on facing pages 40-41. The shape of the poem is a caricatured face in profile on the left page with a cartoon bubble idea on the right page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Turn Your Self Inside Out if You Want to See an Alien Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37356-39209
Scope and Contents

In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 63. The shape of the poem appears to be the face of a cartoon character or hobglobin with many eyes. The poem is about "fear." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Toutes les Pommes se Croquent: Divertissement Typoetique en Cinq Actes, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-29116-30461
Scope and Contents

Peignot provides examples of picture poems using concrete poems as the image with captions underneath, one to a page. The concrete poems are composed by varying letter spacing, alterating boldness of the typeface, mixing typefaces, repeating letters, printing anagrams, presenting different arrangement of letters, mirror imaging, and adding punctuation marks. The poems relate to Peignot's other book, Le Petit Peignot, published the same year as this book. Both books are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Tower of Pisa, 1995

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-54728-990162
Scope and Contents

The poem is formed by dense clusters of words and letters except for the arches that are formed by lines to provide the shape and tilt of the Tower of Pisa. The subject matter deals in part with nations who have held the tower during its existence, e.g., France, Germany, and Italy. The print is silkscreened onto Arches 88 paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Tower of Pisa , 1965

 Item — Folder 58: [Barcode: 31858072537925]
Identifier: CC-54809-420239
Scope and Contents

The poem is formed by dense clusters of words and letters except for the arches that are formed by lines to provide the shape and tilt of the Tower of Pisa. The subject matter deals in part with nations who have held the tower during its existence, e.g., France, Germany, and Italy. This unsigned print is depicted in black on page 36 of Furnival's book "Lost for Words" (2011). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Tower of Pisa / Furnival, John., 1965

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-13331-13632
Scope and Contents

The poem is formed by dense clusters of words and letters except for the arches that are formed by lines to provide the shape and tilt of the Tower of Pisa. The subject matter deals in part with nations who have held the tower during its existence, e.g., France, Germany, and Italy. This print is depicted in red in one image and black in another image on page 36 og Furnival's book "Lost for Words" (2011). The Sackner copy is printed in blue ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965