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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 788 Collections and/or Records:

Terms to be Met / Bradley, George., 1986

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Identifier: CC-21304-21714
Scope and Contents

Yale Series of Younger Poets award winner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Testuale: Le Parole e le Immagini / Flavio Caroli, curator ; Luciano Caramel, curator ; Simmias of Rhodes ; Fortunatus V ; Rabelais ; Blake W ; Marinetti FT ; Soffici A ; Carra C ; Rozanova O ; Kruchenykh A ; Schwitters K ; Picabia F ; Heartfeld J ; Duchamp M ; Magritte R ; Ernst M ; Mayakovsky V ; Lissitzky E ; Twombly C ; Novelli G ; Bense M ; Gomringer E ; DeCampos A ; Rauschenberg R ; Kolar J ; Lichtenstein R ; Johns J ; Michaux H ; Baldessari J ; Beckley B ; Cumming R ; Cutforth R ; Gerz J ; Hilliard J ; Hutchinson P ; LeGac J ; Oppenheim D ; Vaccari F ; Boltanski C ; Alfano C ; Arias-Misson A ; Baruchello GF ; Ori L ; Pignotti L ; Pozzati C ; Tadini E ; Vostell W ; Xerra W ; Accame V ; Barry R ; Bentivoglio M ; Bory JF ; Broodthaers M ; Carrega U ; Caruso L ; diBello B ; Lakner L ; LaRocca K ; Lora-Totino A ; Marocco A ; Mussio M ; Nauman B ; Oberto M ; Opalka R ; Osti M ; Patella L ; Sarenco ; Spatola A ; Verdi F ; Weller S ; Arakawa ; Art & Language ; Boetti A ; Chiari G ; Darboven H ; Ferrari V ; Huebler D ; Isgro E ; Kawara O ; Kosuth J ; Paolini G ; Parmiggiani C ; Ruscha E ; Venet B ; Weiner L ; Wilson I ; Agnetti V ; Beuys J ; Cavellini GA ; Celender D ; Comini R ; DeVree P ; Mesciulam P ; Miccini E ; Nannucci M ; Simonetti GE ; Tot E ; Ben ; Willats S ; Asnaghi CM ; Burgin V., 1979

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Identifier: CC-52920-74060

Th Jinx Ship Nd Othr Trips / bissett, bill ; levy da., 1966

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Identifier: CC-23620-24067
Scope and Contents

This is a major compendium of bissett's diverse styles in poetry and art and is the author's first book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

The Allegheny Star Route / Wagner, D.r., editor ; Kryss, Tom L., editor ; Bukowski C ; Blazek D ; Eigner L ; levy da ; Plymell C ; Wagner Dr ; Norse H ; McCord H ; Richmond S ; Baxter E ; rjs ; Taylor K ; Miller B., 1975

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Identifier: CC-24760-25213
Scope and Contents

Cover was done by Reed Thomason. A silkscreened print of a flower laid into the book was made by Ruth Kryss. The Asphodel catalogue 199, 1999 lists T.L. Kryss as the editor. rjs who contributed a poem alu aka R.J. Sigmund. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The (Almost) Instant Anthology '88 / Daurio, Beverley, editor ; Jones, editor ; Nichol, bp, editor ; curry jw ; Dedora B ; Joe ; Kilpatrick N ; Necakov L ; Venright S., 1988

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Identifier: CC-30399-31818
Scope and Contents

This publication was done at the 2nd Toronto Small Press Book Fair. Writers were invited to submit one page of poetry or prose to the editors four days before the Fair. Nancy Kilpatrick contributed a poem shaped as a side view of a hamburger on a bun. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

The Art Store / Anonymous., 1993

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Identifier: CC-26593-27062
Scope and Contents

The listing of gallery artists is set in a pattern poem shaped like a vase. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Bad Business of Media Merger / Scher, Paula., 2000

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Identifier: CC-33721-35384
Scope and Contents

Paula Scher illustrates an article with the letters AOLTW made up of the brand names in the two merging companies. the article was written by Tom Rosenstiel and Bill Kovach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Bead Curtain / Smith, William Jay., 1957

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Identifier: CC-42602-44618
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts single poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

The Books Lost to the Fire in the Library of Alexandria Revealed Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37358-39211
Scope and Contents

In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 19. The shape of the poem appears to be a Greek temple with columns. The titles of the books listed in the poem are made-up raunch phrases, several well known in old and ancient jokes, e.g, "The Yellow River by I.P. Daily; The Aged Car by Denton Fender; The Random Jockstrap by Wun Hung Lo etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Busses / Benson, Steve., 1981

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Identifier: CC-20916-21325
Scope and Contents

Also designated Tuumba 32. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

The Club Ha Ha Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37353-39205
Scope and Contents In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on pages 109 and 110. The shape is that of a deer with antlers perched upon an intricate goblet that might have been made adapted from Beatrice Ward's "The Crystal Goblet." Daniels describes his poems prints in a personal communication to Marvin Sackner as follows: "Its kind of like walking up to a painting and examining the brushstrokes. The fonts in giant form are"new" and "strange" in a way. Also they make a design of their own. Plus I raise and lower fonts to make curves. People see them as if they never saw them before. Good old Times Roman invented by the Romans to incise sharp shadows for readability on their stone cut signs and developed by The London Times in the 19th Century to acheive clarity while cramming words tight in columns has a new life! Some young people I met at Epoetry 2001 in Buffalo this Spring seem to see me as a kind of "hero" who has "figured out how to get people to read his poems hiding...
Dates: 2001

The Crescent City Blues / Sovern, William David., 1993

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Identifier: CC-02908-2952
Scope and Contents

The cover reproduces a visual poetic collage with a fragment of a map of Akron, Ohio. The poems in this book are laid out such that their right borders form cresents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993