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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 788 Collections and/or Records:

Rune 6: Figures of Speech: the priest / Kempton, Karl., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-56341-9999764
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Rune 6: Figures of Speech: the scribe / Kempton, Karl., 1986

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Identifier: CC-56334-9999758
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Rune 6: Figures of Speech: urban directions / Kempton, Karl., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-56356-9999779
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Rune 6: Figures of Speech: voices in a chip / Kempton, Karl., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-56350-9999773
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

S and S / Cinicolo 3, Donato ; Selenitsch A., 1975

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Identifier: CC-19488-19871
Scope and Contents

The text is printed on blueprint paper that will gradually fade with exposure to light. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Scriptura: Letters on Stamps. No.95 / Hans Adolf Halbey, editor., 1994

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Identifier: CC-02885-2929
Scope and Contents

Each month of this calendar is represented by a calligraphic stamp print and an enlarged reproduction of the actual stamp in different colors than the original. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Secondary English Book One / Sadler, Rex Kevin ; Hayllar, T.A.S. ; Smith WJ ; Apollinaire G ; Gross R., 1983

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Identifier: CC-02102-2140
Scope and Contents

William Jay Smith's poem "Seal" is reproduced. Contains chapter on sound-words, i.e. Onomatopoeia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Seeing Things / Froman, Robert., 1977

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Identifier: CC-11764-11983
Scope and Contents

Froman defines seeing poems (concrete poems) as the outline of a light bulb which "...happens when when words take a shape that helps them to turn on a light in someone's mind." A few poems relating to breathing are included in the book such as "Superstink." This concrete poem depicts a bus at a stop, a start-up, followed by an engine backfire with a big cloud of pollutants released into the atmosphere causing a cacophony of cough, gasp, choke, sneeze, snuffle etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Seeing through Words: The Scope of Late Renaissance Poetry / Cook, Elizabeth ; Herbert G ; Maurus H ; Puttenham G ; Marvell A ; Sylvester J ; Pascahsius., 1986

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Identifier: CC-19833-20220
Scope and Contents

Chapter 2 entitled "Figured Poetry" describes ancient shaped poetry and Includes analyses of the poems of the 17th century English poets such as George Herbert who composed the shaped poem, Easter Wings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Segnaletica Genetica / Miglietta, Enzo., 1979

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Identifier: CC-38192-40088
Scope and Contents

The image is printed in red ink and seems to be a woman's breasts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Selected Poems / Apollinaire, Guillaume ; Oliver Bernard, translator., 1965

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Identifier: CC-24279-24731
Scope and Contents

Poems in this book are translations from the text of Apollinaire's "Oeuvres Poetiques," Editions Gallimard 1959. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

[Self-Portrait] / Dana, Llys., 1999

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Identifier: CC-34185-35870
Scope and Contents

This is one of ten expressionist self-portraits formed with written words and marks from varied weighted pen strokes. Photocopies of the other drawings are held by the Sackner Archive. Some of these drawings were shown in an exhibition, "Les Delirants." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999