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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 788 Collections and/or Records:

Unpublished: [SNAKE 1] [26] / Smith, William Jay., 1958

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Identifier: CC-57433-10000722
Scope and Contents

This first version of the poem SNAKE reads "good by old slitherer god i was scared." The typo of god was corrected in version 2 and an exclamation point was added at the end. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

Unpublished: [SNAKE 2] [25] / Smith, William Jay., 1958

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Identifier: CC-57434-10000724
Scope and Contents

The poem in the shape of a snake reads "good by old slitherer god was i scared!" This second version ends with an exclamation point and corrects the typo in the word "god" in the first version -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

Unpublished: [this man loves to dive] [45] / Smith, William Jay., 1958

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Identifier: CC-57469-10000760
Scope and Contents

The figure of a man enjoying sitting in a contour chair is at the bottom of the page.The top is a figure diving off a board. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

[Untitled] / Apollinaire, Guillaume ; Phillips T ; Sharkey JJ ; Henri A ; Baruchello GF ; Blake P ; Finlay IH ; Chopin H ; Furnival J ; Cobbing B ; Cox K ; Heidsieck B ; Spacagna J ; Williams E., 1968

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Identifier: CC-26002-26464
Scope and Contents

Contains reproduction of handcolored images of Apollinaire's calligraphic poems from the exhibition catalog of Irene Lagut/Leopold Survage, 1917, a book held by the Sackner Archive. The recording is of Apollinaire's reading of his poem "Le Pont Mirbeau," in 1914. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[Untitled] / Cerebral Shorts., 1989

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Identifier: CC-16733-17088
Scope and Contents

Cerebral Shorts aka Charles Roberts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

[Untitled] / Dautricourt, Joelle., 1994

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Identifier: CC-16040-16382
Scope and Contents

Depicts feminist theme of lips, vulva, and breasts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Ut Scriptura / Miccini, Eugenio ; Malevich K ; Fontana G ; Marinetti FT ; Ben ; Mallarme S ; Ray M ; Manzoni P., 1978

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Identifier: CC-38632-40541
Scope and Contents

This book depicts several themes that Miccini uses in visual poems, e.g., Poetry Gets Into Life, homages to important persons in art and literature through construction of pages indicative of their style, and word plays, etc. A section at the beginning of the book depicts poems with varies geometric shapes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Ut Scriptura / Miccini, Eugenio ; Malevich K ; Fontana G ; Marinetti FT ; Ben ; Mallarme S ; Ray M ; Manzoni P., 1978

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Identifier: CC-31616-33115
Scope and Contents

This book depicts several themes that Miccini uses in visual poems, e.g., Poetry Gets Into Life, homages to important persons in art and literature through construction of pages indicative of their style, and word plays, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Verdichtungen / Pimenta, Alberto., 1997

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Identifier: CC-27677-28764
Scope and Contents

The poems combine German, Portuguese and English words and phrases layed out in geometrical shapes. There is an image of an ancient astronomic instrument, called Astrolabium from 1480, on the cover that recurs as fragments throughout the book and in its full form at the end of the book along with documentation in German. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Verisimilitude / spence, pete ; Aisbett, Bev., 1987

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Identifier: CC-35538-37278
Scope and Contents

The one word poems in this book consist of words that have the letter, 'v.' The poems are handwritten and the 'v' is often written in a visual way to bring out the sense of the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Vieux Voeux / Blaine, Julien., 2001

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Identifier: CC-35707-37458
Scope and Contents

The poems consist of word play on "arriver and aller," meaning to come and to go. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001