Shaped poetry
Found in 777 Collections and/or Records:
[the ruffian said] / Verey, Charles., 1970
This drawing has a hand-numbered 4 in the l.r. corner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[the ruffian said] / Verey, Charles., 1970
This drawing has a hand-numbered 4 in the l.r. corner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The ruptures in the Argentinean poetic tradition through the XX century / Padin, Clemente ; Doctorovich F ; Vigo EA ; Gutierrez J ; Solar X ; Pazos L ; Dermisache M ; Escobar L ; Kosice G ; Cignoni R ; Perednik JS ; Girondo O., 1997
The Self-Portrait Gate, 2001
In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on facing pages 40-41. The shape of the poem is a caricatured face in profile on the left page with a cartoon bubble idea on the right page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Six-Cornered Snowflake and Other Poems / Nims, John Frederick., 1990
The Six-Cornered Snowflake / Nims, John Frederick., 1991
This poem in shapes of a six-cornered snowflakes recalls the experience of seeing snow fall over the city of Prague. The closing line is an ode to the beauty of snow, "Over Prague of the hundred towers, jumbled roofs, the winter river, the recounciling bridge, down our endangered air, forgiving snow cajoles the earth in musical notes yet." Illustrations as wood engravings of Prague buildings in the shape of snowflakes to accompany the poem were done by Dean Bornstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Six-Cornered Snowflake / Nims, John Frederick., 1991
This poem in shapes of a six-cornered snowflakes recalls the experience of seeing snow fall over the city of Prague. The closing line is an ode to the beauty of snow, "Over Prague of the hundred towers, jumbled roofs, the winter river, the recounciling bridge, down our endangered air, forgiving snow cajoles the earth in musical notes yet." Illustrations as wood engravings of Prague buildings in the shape of snowflakes to accompany the poem were done by Dean Bornstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Spiral Door Stop / Fencott, P.C.., 1981
The Transformation of the Big Bozo into that Set of Stretched Goal Squeezed Mainstream Bozos which when Push Comes to Shove Retain the Intestinal Fortitudes Needed to Trickle Down into Formations of Emergent Solid Subsets of the Set of All Sets which are not Members of Themselves which may not be in the end a Valid Member of itself yet Remains a Solid Member of Absolute Bozo Gate / Daniels, David., 2001
In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on sequential pages 325-334. The poem has several shaped segmsnts include a Coca Cola bottle, a butterfly, and a silhouetted figure among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Turn Your Self Inside Out if You Want to See an Alien Gate, 2001
In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 63. The shape of the poem appears to be the face of a cartoon character or hobglobin with many eyes. The poem is about "fear." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
the USA is a huge erect penis / Varney, Edwin., 1975
The Watts Tower Poems, 1972
This poem commemorating Simon Rodia's architectural Watts Towers in Los Angeles was reproduced from Creative Word 1 in the Random House English Series, an educational tool for the schools. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The world's a trough and everyman a pig / Sharkey, John J.., 1968
This is a poem in the shape of a pig typed with capital letters and each body part is the typed name of that part. The complete quote at the botton of the page "The world's a trough and everyman a pig " is attributed to Swillshere. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
There Is No End to Disbelief / Barron, Susan., 1990
This is Visual Poetry. No.52/Jul / David A. Colon., 2010
Tick Tock / Laxson, Ruth., 1995
To Mix with TIme / Swenson, May., 1963
To Mix with TIme / Swenson, May., 1963
Toast th Screenwriter, Not the Actor / Kerr, Thomas., 1989
Consists of shaped poem of Shakespeare's portrait, using his texts, to illustrate letter to the editor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Toutes les Pommes se Croquent: Divertissement Typoetique en Cinq Actes, 1996
Peignot provides examples of picture poems using concrete poems as the image with captions underneath, one to a page. The concrete poems are composed by varying letter spacing, alterating boldness of the typeface, mixing typefaces, repeating letters, printing anagrams, presenting different arrangement of letters, mirror imaging, and adding punctuation marks. The poems relate to Peignot's other book, Le Petit Peignot, published the same year as this book. Both books are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.