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This is a reprint on different paper (Arches 88) of the same print from the sixties -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This biography of Edward Taylor (1642-1729) includes a single shaped poem on page 168. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the first volume of an announced 27 volumes that Dnaielewski proposes to produce.The plot takes place on a single rainy day and follows the story of a girl named Xanther.The plot ranges in time, in place and with characters in bewildering, creative typography, design, language and poetry. As Tom LeClair wrote in his New York Times Book Review,"To reinforce the exoticism of his material Danielewski invents a nearly opaque pidgen English, interspersed with Russian and Chinese printed characters..two other story lines...Los Angeles subcultures." John Williams adds in his review, "Danielewski's novels are brillintly produced, with text that curves away from the page margins, piles on itself until it becomes unintelligible blocks, and changes colores to represent different charctrers or themes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The free verse is in the shape of two snakes and recounts Harrison's encounter with a rattle snake. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents John Strausbaugh, writing in New York Press, August 2-8, 2000, Volume 13, Number 31 commented on this book and the author as follows. "Kenneth Goldsmith came by the office to show me a book of poetry he knew I'd appreciate. Not a normal book of poetry, and not published. It's a black ledger book, fat with 394 8-1/2-by- 11 pages containing more than 350 poems. And not just any poems. These poems form shapes, black & white computer printout silhouettes of birds and men, stars and trees, urns and amphorae; an elephant of words, a poem shaped like a stiff penis, one shaped like a toilet in the White House, others shaped like a rectal thermometer, a church, a lemon, a seal, a snake, a vacuum cleaner, a flowering vagina, a winged griffin, a diagram of a traffic accident, a mushroom cloud, a Mixmaster, a gun, a New Yorker "pissing on the sidewalk." Apollinaire and the Chinese pictograms called Phoenix Dragon writing are the most obvious antecedents. Some are as funny and fantastical...

Scope and Contents John Strausbaugh, writing in New York Press, August 2-8, 2000, Volume 13, Number 31 commented on this book and the author as follows. "Kenneth Goldsmith came by the office to show me a book of poetry he knew I'd appreciate. Not a normal book of poetry, and not published. It's a black ledger book, fat with 394 8-1/2-by- 11 pages containing more than 350 poems. And not just any poems. These poems form shapes, black & white computer printout silhouettes of birds and men, stars and trees, urns and amphorae; an elephant of words, a poem shaped like a stiff penis, one shaped like a toilet in the White House, others shaped like a rectal thermometer, a church, a lemon, a seal, a snake, a vacuum cleaner, a flowering vagina, a winged griffin, a diagram of a traffic accident, a mushroom cloud, a Mixmaster, a gun, a New Yorker "pissing on the sidewalk." Apollinaire and the Chinese pictograms called Phoenix Dragon writing are the most obvious antecedents. Some are as funny and fantastical...

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First published in 1918, this anthology reprints Greek Epigrams in various metres, arithmetical problems, riddles, oracles, miscellanea, epigrams of the planudean anthology not in the Palatine manuscript, with the Greek and English texts on facing pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on sequential pages 289-290. The shape of the poem is a female figure seen from behind with a helmut on her head. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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At the time of publication, the author was Vice-President and General Manager of Something Else Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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At the time of publication, the author was Vice-President and General Manager of Something Else Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes chapter "Poetic Pictures," which provides examples of shaped and concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on sequential pages 167-171. The shape of the poem consists of five poems with abstract shapes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 43. The shape of the poem is a dragonfly viewed from above and this mentioned in the concluding phrase, "Stars shine bright on shatter light fate twitch wings finning out inner atmosphere character. Thee.The. That's go with the flow of the delicate Herakleition transparent inner stratasphere dragonfly light wings, folks." The dragonfly's body consists of rhyming nonsense words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The shape of this poem is a bow and arrow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This poem is printed in the shape of the Oscar for film academy awards using the names of the nominees. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 8. The shape is that of the lower half of a New York man's body peeing on the sidewalk. The last word of the title together with the urinary stream documents this shape, "New Yorkers Pissing on the Sidewalk." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.