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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

Visual Voices; Poem Floating through One's Dream, Blurred in Three Places pages 14-15 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-56778-10000150
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon John Donne's (1573-1631), "Death Be Not Proud." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem in Extremis: Trying to Escape Itself; pages 42-43 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56816-10000184
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Abraham Cowley (1618-1667), "Sport." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem in the Making and Unmaking pages 6-7 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56774-10000146
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Geirge Herbert's (1593-1633) poem, "The Quiddity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem of the Reader's Laser-Beam Mind Fusing an Epic into Its Initial and Concluding Lines; pages 86--87 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56936-10000299
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Michael Drayton (1563-1631). The first two and the last two lines of Poly-Olbion, Or a Chorographical Description of Tracts, Rivers, Mountains, Forest and other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britain, with Intermixtureof the Most Remarkable Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarities, Pleasures, and Commodities of the Same. " -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem Refusing To Be Paged; pages 46-47 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56818-10000186
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon the First Set of Madrigals of Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem Reorganized According to a Subliminal Principle of Cohesion; pages 82-83 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56882-10000248
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), from The Lay of the Last Minstrel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem Seen Sideways, in Profile; pages 68-69 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56848-10000216
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Robert Herrick (1591-1674), "Delight in Disorder." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem: Simultaneous View of As Both Crowded and Spacious; pages 112--113 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56993-10000355
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Air from Elizabethan songbook: "Every bush new springing" Every bush new springing, Every bird now singing, Merrily sat poor Nicho, Chanting troli lo loli lo, Till her he had espied On whom his hope relied, Down a down, with a frown, O she pulled him down. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem with Hair; pages 74-75 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56851-10000219
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Thomas Dekker (1570?-1632), from Pleasant Comedy of Patient Grissil. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem with Rhymes Unclasped, Falling off Their Cliffs; pages 60-61 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56844-10000212
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), "Nature." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem with Right Margin Pulled Tight to Dislodge Secret Message; pages 44-45 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56817-10000185
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Anonymous, 16th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Poem with Rightful Line Evicting an Impostor from Another Poem; pages 48-49 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56819-10000187
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Poem with rightful line: William Blake(1757-1827), Poem with fraudulent line: Abraham Cowley (1618-1667). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Reader's Free Alteration Poem pages 26-27 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56793-10000162
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), "She Walks in Beauty." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Refrain Notation Poem; pages 132--133 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57012-10000374
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon "Tomorrow shall be my dancing day," early English song Spenser, "Epithalamion" Wyatt, "The Lover Complaynath the Unkindness of his Love" (1503 - 1549). Refrains from the three different poems ring out in repetition, print-interconnected, given in notation rather than full quote. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Reverberations: Night Mind Anthology pages 2-3 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56772-10000144
Scope and Contents

This poem appears to be a melange of Weiss' own poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Reverse Word -Order Poem; pages 120--121 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57006-10000368
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon William Collins (1721-1759), "Ode Written in the Beggining of the Year 1746." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Telegram Poem; pages 64-65 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56846-10000214
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Thomas Parnell (1679-1718), "When thy beauty appears." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Telephone Doodle Poem; pages 36-37 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56798-10000167
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Sir Edward Dyer (d.1607), "The lowest trees have tops." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices; Telescopic Piece of Poem Marching in the Poetic Firmament ; pages 94--95 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56942-10000306
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Keats, "Sleep and Poetry,"11. 47-58 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices: The Book Closed, the Facing Pages Kiss; pages 144-145 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57239-10000561
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon William Wordsworth (1770-1850), "The White Doe of Rylstone," Canto Four, lines 68-169. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994