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Shaped poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 113 Collections and/or Records:

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

Neville Chamberlain's Chimera , 1979

 Item — Box 319: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-26229-26692
Scope and Contents

Contains one poem to the page printed in red and blue inks. the author provides the sources for the poems at the end of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

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

On Learning to Live on Winter Perhaps in Hopes of Spring, 1968

 Item — Box 330: [Barcode: 31858072490968]
Identifier: CC-22033-22449
Scope and Contents

Designed and printed by R. Wilson at Indiana University, Bloomington. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Orange Au Pair Girl, 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [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

Pedaall poweem, 1966

 Item — Folder 30: [Barcode: 31858072459898]
Identifier: CC-32450-34024
Scope and Contents

The poem depicts two, hot pink colored, foot shaped poems formed by Dutch words that are printed on a green background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Photographs / Kitasono, Katue., 2009

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Identifier: CC-54035-642998
Scope and Contents Amazon.com: Kitasano was one of the most important Japanese Avant Garde poets of the 20th century. He was born in 1902 and died in 1978. It was right in the middle of the century that his creativity unfolded during the fifty years before and after WWII. His work entailed announcements of the production of his poems and photos, critical essays, the binding and editing of books and magazines. In 1966 Kitasono published the work Plastic Poem which was first published in English as A Note on Plastic Poetry in VOU (Revue de la Poesie Experimentale). This book shows many examples of his published plastic poems many of them published in the sixties and seventies in the magazine VOU. Contains many photographs in b/w and reproductions in color.The Sackner Archive holds the following issues of Vou depiicted as covers in this book: 85, 106, 108, 109, 112 and 114. The Sackner Archive holds the photograph depicted on page 113 of this book (it also appeared in Vou No.106), photograph on page 114...
Dates: 2009

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 Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [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

Portrait of My Mother, 1977

 Item — Folder 56: [Barcode: 31858072537909]
Identifier: CC-21851-22262
Scope and Contents

Portrait taken from an old photograph and found personal records. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977