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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 788 Collections and/or Records:

Physical Language Laboratory: Family Portrait. No.1 / Leda Black., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28665-29965
Scope and Contents

The title "Family Portrait" is printed on the cover. "Instructions: are you a) a knife b) a fork c) a spoon" is printed on the left sided page. The right sided page depicts a fork, knife and spoon that are filled with italicized run-on text dealing with the theme of flesh. The small loose sheet states that this work "may be displayed standing up on the piano with the other family portraits." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Physical Language Laboratory: Family Portrait. No.1 / Leda Black., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28666-29966
Scope and Contents

The title "Family Portrait" is printed on the cover. "Instructions: are you a) a knife b) a fork c) a spoon" is printed on the left sided page. The right sided page depicts a fork, knife and spoon that are filled with italicized run-on text dealing with the theme of flesh. The small loose sheet states that this work "may be displayed standing up on the piano with the other family portraits." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Pieces of Poetry / Nuttall, Jeff., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-05560-5667
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum Poets No.17. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Pisa 1965: The 1st Leaning Manifest / Furnival, John; Mayer HJ., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-13166-13467
Scope and Contents

The image depicts the shape of the Leaning Tower of Pisa created totally of text. The verso indicates that the original is in the collection of Hansjorg Mayer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Plakat: Loakrime. No.9 / Philip Ward., 1967

 Item
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.

Dates: 1967

Poem d'amour et de revolution / Diotallevi, Marcello., 1998

 Item
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

Poems 1970-1971 / Cox, Morris., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-19638-20024
Scope and Contents

The text was printed on Japanese kozu-shi paper by Morris Cox. Some of these highly idiosyncratic poems have content which is a cross between constellations and language poetry. Cox arranges some of his minimalist poems in the style of Robert Lax. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Poems For Painters / Williams, Guy ; Albers J ; Hofman H ; Rothko M ; Davis S ; Klee P ; Duchamp M ; Newman B ; Johns J ; Woelffer F ; Lichtenstein R ; Keane M., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-50939-72017
Scope and Contents

Williams types a grid of $ signs to represent the work of Margaret Keane as a political swipe at her work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

[Poems] / Trubaj, Vasyl., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-48573-69604
Scope and Contents

Although these pieces are probably photocopied, they might be typed carbon copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Poetes Baroques Allemands / Petit, Marc., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-04722-4811
Scope and Contents

Includes several examples of Baroque German shaped poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

[Pornographic Heart] / Davenport, Philip., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-51296-72385
Scope and Contents

This piece cut from a pornographic magazine is stored with Davenport's Vogue Divine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Portrait de Michel Tapie, Amateur d'Art / Lemaitre, Maurice., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-07475-7619
Scope and Contents

Reproduction of painting done in 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

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