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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 788 Collections and/or Records:

Typewriter Town Unpublished: [two collaged figures] [12] / Smith, William Jay., 1958

 Item
Identifier: CC-57413-200050
Scope and Contents

The top typed figure resembles a shark head. The bottom figure is a smiling lady on a couch with a snake. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

Typogramme / Hoesselbarth, Kai., 1988

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Identifier: CC-09333-9519
Scope and Contents

The poem depicts a bow and arrow with the bow formed from the word "mehrheit" repeated three times. the arrow is formed from the word "andersdenkende." Mehrheit means majority and andersdenkende dissident in English. The arrow pierces the bow and drips red drops of blood. the verso depicts a fragment of another shaped poem. Hosselbarth or Hoesselbarth is now known as Kai Selbar. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Typogramme / Hoesselbarth, Kai., 1992

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Identifier: CC-27644-28726
Scope and Contents

The concrete poems in this portfolio are printed with contemporary typefaces sans serif. Hosselbarth or Hoesselbarth is now known as Kai Selbar. The Sackner Archive holds two copies of this portfolio. In this one, the portfolio is covered with brown fabric and the cover print has a blue background. In the other copy, the portfolio is covered with black fabric and the cover print has a black background. The images of the prints are identical but there are minor differences in color registration on some of them. The number of artist proof copies is unknown. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Typogramme / Hoesselbarth, Kai., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-39061-40999
Scope and Contents

The concrete poems in this portfolio are printed with contemporary typefaces sans serif. Hosselbarth or Hoesselbarth is now known as Kai Selbar. The Sackner Archive holds two copies of this portfolio. In this one, the portfolio is covered with black fabric and the cover print has a black background. In the other copy, the portfolio is covered with brown fabric and the cover print has a blue background. The images of the prints are identical but there are minor differences in color registration on some of them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Typographica. No.14/Dec / Herbert Spencer, editor ; Themerson S ; Apollinaire G ; Herbert G ; Mallarme S ; Panard CF ; Albert-Birot P ; Altman N ; Blake W ; Lewis WP ; Tzara T ; Lissitzky E., 1966

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Identifier: CC-40847-42824
Scope and Contents

Stefan Themerson contributes a well illustrated essay on the calligrammes of Apollinaire and Albert-Birot. These include the black & white reproductions for Apollinaire's "pour Irene Lagut (1917); the original printed and hand colored copies of these poems is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Typomanie / Raasch, Klaus; Neruda P., 1991

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Identifier: CC-03500-3557
Scope and Contents

The images of the prints combine large type face letters with typographic inventions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Uj Iras. No.11/Nov / Kepes G., 1980

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Identifier: CC-01042-1068
Scope and Contents

Depicts several shaped poems with Latin texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980