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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 778 Collections and/or Records:

[butterfly with red o's] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-57556-10000833
Scope and Contents

Poem is folded to resemble the shape of a butterfly with red and black markings produced by typing. This work was removed from a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the kner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Caligramas y Recortes en Papel / Zeller, Ludwig ; Apollinaire G., 1969 - 1987

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Identifier: CC-29944-31335
Scope and Contents

The exhibition consisted of 30 calligraphic poems cut from paper, numbers 19 to 25 were later published in a portfolio, "Siete Caligramas," a work also held by the Sackner Archive. In this catalogue, Zeller expains how he found the text for his first calligram in a dream. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969 - 1987

Calligrams / Apollinaire, Guillaume ; Anne Hyde Greet, translator., 1970

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Identifier: CC-24740-25193
Scope and Contents

Calligrams are presented in French and English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

[Calligraphic Bush] / Hatherly, Ana., 1988

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Identifier: CC-34773-36479
Scope and Contents

The drawing consists of short lines of handwritten strokes creating a design that resembles a bush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Calligraphie Arabe / Massoudy, Hassan., 1980

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Identifier: CC-62429-47568
Scope and Contents

Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California. Exhibition was curated by Karl Kempton. There are four duplicate cards. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Calligraphie arabe moderne / Massoudy, Hassan., 1984

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Identifier: CC-62428-47567
Scope and Contents

Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California. Exhibition was curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Carmina I: Textvs Adiecto Indice Verborvm / Porfyrii, Pvblilii Optatiani., 1973

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Identifier: CC-04726-4815
Scope and Contents

Edited by Johannes Polara. A first edition of "Panagyricus..." (1595) by the author whose name is spelled as "Porphyrii" is held by the Sackner Archive. The text and poems of this book provide reproductions of "Panagyricus" which in the original book are Carmina Cancellata. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Carmina II: Commentarivm Criticvm et Exegeticvm / Porfyrii, Pvblilii Optatiani., 1973

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Identifier: CC-04724-4813
Scope and Contents

Consists of annotated bibliography of the poet's works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Carpet / Kempton, Karl., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-62431-47574
Scope and Contents

Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California. Exhibition was curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Celebration de la Laine / Blanc, Jean., 1966

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Identifier: CC-33035-34657
Scope and Contents

The front cover and the first two pages depict a pattern poem using the words "celebration de" in the shape of wool threads. "La Laine" means wool in English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Celeste / Tompkins, Betty., 1980

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Identifier: CC-48351-69377
Scope and Contents

This four colored print depicts a cow formed from repetitive written word 'cow.' The word 'hay' on the ground in front of the cow is repeated to form a stack of hay that is also being chewed by the cow. The cow is standing on a gray mound of words that spell 'snow.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Cere E Arcobaleni / Simoni, Sara ; Baroni, Vittore ; Simoni, Piero., 1981

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Identifier: CC-02115-2153
Scope and Contents

Each page contains a portrait composed of typed letters and words with crayoned enhancements. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

C'est mon dada: Homage to the Square and other visual poems. No.16/Jan / Clemente Padin ; Malevich K ; Albers J ; Cage J ; Kosuth J ; Garnier P ; Dias-Pino W ; Zaj ; Brossa J ; Vigo EA ; Deisler G ; Cobbing B ; Bennett JM ; Blaine J., 2008

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Identifier: CC-47657-68671
Scope and Contents

Padin composes the shaped poems of "Homage to the Square" in the styles of various poets and artists reminiscent of the typewriter poems composed by Jiri Kolar In Und No.2, 1969, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Chair l'Occident - Cher / Chopin, Henri., 1961

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Identifier: CC-18708-19081
Scope and Contents

This is the original of the typing which appears in Chopin's book of unnumbered pages, "Le Dernier Roman du Monde" in b&w. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1961