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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 788 Collections and/or Records:

Fingermail: Candle. No.10/Jul / David UU., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-10824-11034
Scope and Contents

Edited by Damian Lopes. This is the second edition of the poem first published as Feetprints No.4, April 1991, a publication also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Fir-Tree Song / Lucie-Smith, Edward., 1965

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Identifier: CC-38208-40104
Scope and Contents

The poem is laid out in the shape of a fir tree. This copy is from the unsigned, unnumbered edition of 175; 75 copies were signed and numbered by Lucie-Smith. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

First Daffodils / Thalia., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34645-36346
Scope and Contents

The poem is composed of the two ideograms for the words 'First' and 'Daffodils' presented as a field of flowers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Five Experimental Poems / Grice, Frederick., 1975

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Identifier: CC-38488-40395
Scope and Contents

A seach of Grice's publications on the WEB revealed that he has written non-fiction and fictional works (Penguin Press) mostly for young readers. However, no poetry books were listed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Flowers in Concrete, 1966

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Identifier: CC-02770-2813
Scope and Contents

This book was designed and printed from linecuts by John Dearstyne. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Flowers in Concrete / Solt, Mary Ellen., 1969

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Identifier: CC-58806-67036
Scope and Contents

Each print depicts a concrete poem that depicts a flower silkscreen by Loyd Olcutt from Solt's original calligraphic drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Flowers in Concrete / Solt, Mary Ellen., 1969

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Identifier: CC-58807-67415
Scope and Contents

Each print depicts a concrete poem that depicts a flower silkscreen by Loyd Olcutt from Solt's original calligraphic drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

For the Named and the Unnameable: An Alphabet Garden / Samuels, Diane., 1997

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Identifier: CC-31659-33163
Scope and Contents

This book was a proposal submitted to the Grafeneck Memorial Committee in Germany as a garden design. Its intent was to memorialize the 10,654 disabled people killed by the Nazis in this institution in 1940. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Four Experimental Poems / Grice, Frederick., 1975

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Identifier: CC-38489-40396
Scope and Contents

A search of Grice's publications on the WEB revealed that he has written non-fiction and fictional works (Penguin Press) mostly for young readers. However, no poetry books were listed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Four Poster Poems / Phillips, Michael Joseph., 1968

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Identifier: CC-39245-41191
Scope and Contents

Three of the four images were done in the same style as Kostelanetz's "Portraits from Memory." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Frohlichs wirbeltiergehirn: Beitrage zur physiologischen literatur / Eisendle, Helmut., 1975

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Identifier: CC-46922-49658
Scope and Contents

The images created with typed text are of the brain and its component parts. The text is related to anatomy and physiology of the brain. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Funfundzwanzig Figuarengedichte des Barock / Severin, Karl, editor ; Harsdorffer GP ; vonBirken J ; Karst JR ; Frisch J ; Praetorius J ; Kornfeld T., 1983

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Identifier: CC-02907-2951
Scope and Contents

Reproduces several shaped poems in Baroque German typeface with contemporary comments. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Funghi Marinati / Anonymous., 1987

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Identifier: CC-25629-26087
Scope and Contents

A recipe is printed in the shape of a mushroom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

futura: Chamber Music. No.19 / Bob Cobbing., 1967

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Identifier: CC-27476-28524
Scope and Contents

Single words are arranged vertically, horizontally, and diagonally to simulate the shape of twelve snowflakes. This arrangement is scored for sound or performance poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

futura: Engagierende Texte. No.8 / Claus Bremer., 1966

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Identifier: CC-27458-28506
Scope and Contents

One long poem has the phrase in German, "strings always in that remains" repeated in a long vertical column about 100 times. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

futura: Luxo Lixa. No.9 / Augusto De Campos., 1966

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Identifier: CC-27466-28514
Scope and Contents

De Campos provides notes that explain the poem. The word LIXO (garbage) is formed by repeated printing of the word luxo (luxury). "The typographical display wants to operate in a direct impact - the metamorphosis of the opposite doublet - a concrete antiadvertisement unpoetical poem - a clean ode to garbage by the poet letter collector - an opop poem." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966