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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 777 Collections and/or Records:

[the ruffian said] / Verey, Charles., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-57083-10000440
Scope and Contents

This drawing has a hand-numbered 4 in the l.r. corner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

[the ruffian said] / Verey, Charles., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-57090-10000441
Scope and Contents

This drawing has a hand-numbered 4 in the l.r. corner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

The Self-Portrait Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37362-39215
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2001

The Six-Cornered Snowflake / Nims, John Frederick., 1991

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Identifier: CC-05566-5673
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1991

The Six-Cornered Snowflake / Nims, John Frederick., 1991

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Identifier: CC-05567-5674
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1991

The Turn Your Self Inside Out if You Want to See an Alien Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37356-39209
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2001

The Watts Tower Poems, 1972

 Item — Box 609: [Barcode: 31858073143566]
Identifier: CC-02524-2566
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1972

The world's a trough and everyman a pig / Sharkey, John J.., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56708-10000094
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1968

This is Visual Poetry. No.52/Jul / David A. Colon., 2010

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Identifier: CC-52044-73146
Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that David A. Colon teaches literature at Texas Christian University. He received his Ph.D. in English from Stanford University, where he wrote a dissertation on the transformation of the trope of the Chinese written character as a medium for poetry from Imagism to Concretism. His poems have appeared in DIAGRAM, Score, Latino Stuff Review, The Stanford Black Arts Quarterly, and elsewhere. His work in poetics and poetry criticism has appeared or is forthcoming in Cultural Critique, The Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies, How2, Hispanet Journal, MELUS, Studies in American Culture, and The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics. He was born and raised in Brooklyn and now lives in Fort Worth. David says: "These visual poems treat letters and words as a palette from which familiar (and defamiliarized) images are conjured. Negative space is a counterpoint to the designs, suggesting a visual representation of silence: the same...
Dates: 2010

Toast th Screenwriter, Not the Actor / Kerr, Thomas., 1989

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Identifier: CC-07790-7943
Scope and Contents

Consists of shaped poem of Shakespeare's portrait, using his texts, to illustrate letter to the editor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Toutes les Pommes se Croquent: Divertissement Typoetique en Cinq Actes, 1996

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Identifier: CC-29116-30461
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1996