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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 778 Collections and/or Records:

Charactures of Religious Figures / Plantu; Gotlib, Marcil., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44513-46663
Scope and Contents

This issue deals with the Danish crisis in the Islamic world cause by publishing cartoons of the prophet Mohamet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

[Chinese Palindrome: The World's Most Exquisite Literature] / Wang, Chung-huo., 1966

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Identifier: CC-28879-30201
Scope and Contents

The photstats were printed on glossy photographic paper. They consist of several duplicates of varied exposures and magnifications. According to Dick Higgins, who owned these photostats fpr publication in his book "Pattern Poetry," the original book in the 1970s was not available in the USA. However, the Sackner Archive acquired the book in 2012. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Chrac / Kozol, Myroslav., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34299-35992
Scope and Contents

These prints are two stage proofs of a poem in white handwritten letters on a blue background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Christ and Disciples / Myslowski, Tadeusz., 1984

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Identifier: CC-36077-37854
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Cleaning Windows / Sutherland, W. Mark., 1993

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Identifier: CC-02742-2785
Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Clown War: Monad. No.1(Extra) / A.F.C.., 1981

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Identifier: CC-17199-17557
Dates: 1981
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Cockles of the Heart / Mackowiak, Barbara., 1980

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Identifier: CC-06106-6220
Scope and Contents

This poem in the shape of a heart is made up of well known phrases dealing with the word "heart." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Cockles of the Heart / Mackowiak, Barbara., 1980

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Identifier: CC-06110-6224
Scope and Contents

This poem in the shape of a heart is made up of well known phrases dealing with the word "heart." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Colecao Enciclopedia Visual: Naquele Flutuar das Escritas: Caligramas / Dias Pino, Wlademir, editor; Carroll L; Apollinaire G., 1995

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Identifier: CC-16177-16520
Scope and Contents

Features examples of Arabic and Oriental shaped poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Collected Poems / Swenson, May., 2013

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Identifier: CC-56675-10004592
Scope and Contents Although Swenson's book, 'Iconographs' is recognized for multitude of shaped poems, this book depicts several other examples throughout her poetic career. These include poems from the following books, ' To Mix with Time' (1963) and 'Half Sun Half Sleep' (1967). In a section of 'Collected Poems' (2013) entitled 'Notes on the Text page 726, it is mentioned that the shaped poems of 'Iconographs' were oroginally published in a typewriter font preferred by Swenson.Alfred Corn Review from Poetry Magazine (December 2, 2013:Definition won't be easy, and it has to begin by taking her biography into account. The profile of the provincial who comes to New York in hopes of ?becoming a celebrated artist is standard enough, but in Swenson's case several non-routine factors should also be ?considered. Her parents were Swedish immigrants, Mormon converts come to the Utah homeland, who brought her up in their ?adopted faith. But at some point she realized she was a lesbian. This was one more reason...
Dates: 2013
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Collected Poems Volume Fifteen: Gibbering His Wares / Cobbing, Bob ; Manson P., 1996

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Identifier: CC-31689-33198
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by Peter Manson. The final section of this book consists of annotations to the poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Collection "Pages sans Titre": untitled. No.3 / Michel Corfou., 1978

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Identifier: CC-18556-18928
Scope and Contents

Several of the typings are portraits and each of the works enclosed by a line drawing of an egg. The issue of this periodical is stored in the Michel Corfou box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

[Colors] / Kleinberg, Judy I.., 1983

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Identifier: CC-62483-47636
Scope and Contents

Names of colors are printed in a rainbow shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

[come mani brinate...] / Caruso, Luciano., 1988 - 1989

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Identifier: CC-33951-35623
Scope and Contents

The collage consists of nine overlapping leaves in a horizontal row that have handwritten text collaged onto a white paper disc. The latter is collaged onto a green paper background. An additional leaf is collaged at the top center of ther disc. Caruso has written and cancelled a phrase beginning "come mani brinate..." in the lower half of the disc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988 - 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Contrafala (1977-1979) / Bento, Katia ; Mayakovsky V., 1980

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Identifier: CC-22174-22596
Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Couleurs Intimes: Poemes Calligraphies / Bearn, Pierre., 1953

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Identifier: CC-55440-9999125
Scope and Contents The shapes of the poems in this book are composed of calligraphic text arranged to form human figures or parts of figures. In addition, line drawings of human figures overlay conventional poems to form picture poems. Finally, both line and calligraphic drawings of the same figurative shape are printed on some of the facing pages. This effect is analogous to the work of the Italian poet, Ketty La Rocca that was published in the seventies.Wikipedia: Pierre Bearn (15 June 1902 -- October 27, 2004) was a French writer. He was born Louis-Gabriel Besnard in Bucharest, Romania.He is known to Anglophones for his poem "Couleurs d'usine", which includes the line Metro boulot bistrots megots dodo zero (translation: "Subway work bars (cigarette) butts sleep nothing"). A multifaceted personality, at one time a journalist, novelist, poet, fabulist and humanist, at age nine Bearn began writing in French slang, his "natural" language. His father having died prematurely, at the age of 14 he became...
Dates: 1953
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Couleurs Intimes: Poemes Calligraphies / Bearn, Pierre., 1953

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Identifier: CC-23259-23698
Scope and Contents The shapes of the poems in this book are composed of calligraphic text arranged to form human figures or parts of figures. In addition, line drawings of human figures overlay conventional poems to form picture poems. Finally, both line and calligraphic drawings of the same figurative shape are printed on some of the facing pages. This effect is analogous to the work of the Italian poet, Ketty La Rocca that was published in the seventies.Wikipedia: Pierre Bearn (15 June 1902 -- October 27, 2004) was a French writer. He was born Louis-Gabriel Besnard in Bucharest, Romania.He is known to Anglophones for his poem "Couleurs d'usine", which includes the line Metro boulot bistrots megots dodo zero (translation: "Subway work bars (cigarette) butts sleep nothing"). A multifaceted personality, at one time a journalist, novelist, poet, fabulist and humanist, at age nine Bearn began writing in French slang, his "natural" language. His father having died prematurely, at the age of 14 he became...
Dates: 1953
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Counter-Blast / McLuhan, Marshall., 1969

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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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Crevice/Map / Johanknecht, Susan; Newson, Jenifer., 1984

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Identifier: CC-08332-8495
Scope and Contents

The text on one side, MAP, describes the contour of an imagined terrain in concrete poetic terms while the text on the other side, CREVICE, describes female anatomy in visual poetic terms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

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