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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 788 Collections and/or Records:

Voices International. No.1/Spr., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-00811-830
Scope and Contents

The cover poem by Vera Joyce Nelson is a shaped poem; the remainder of the magazine has conventional poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

vowl man / bissett, bill., 2000

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Identifier: CC-57993-10001253
Scope and Contents

This print depicts a frontal view of a man formed with typed vowels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Warts and All: A selection of typewriter art and poetry from 1969 to 2007, 2012

 Item — Box 334: [Barcode: 31858072491032]
Identifier: CC-55917-9999384
Scope and Contents

Belsey lists the maker and model of the typewriters that he used for these poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

What Speaking the Language Tells the Japanese / Kerr, Thomas., 1989

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Identifier: CC-07789-7942
Scope and Contents

Consists of head and shoulders portrait made up of calligraphic texts to illustrate letter to the editor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Why Shiva Has Ten Arms / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

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Identifier: CC-17493-17859
Scope and Contents

Designated writers forum folder number seven. This tenth publication of Cobbing includes new versions of the following poems: "Soma," "Whisper Piece," "Vertigo," "Marvo Movies Natter," and "Transcript." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Why Shiva Has Ten Arms / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

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Identifier: CC-17448-17813
Scope and Contents

Designated writers forum folder number seven. This tenth publication of Cobbing includes new versions of the following poems: "Soma," "Whisper Piece," "Vertigo," "Marvo Movies Natter," and "Transcript." Colophon states "Why Shiva has ten arms / for he represents the dance of life / the omnipotence of being able to do innumerably / many things at once / .the joyous cosmology -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Wing / Fraser, Kathleen ; Brainard J ; Jess ; Elmslie K., 1995

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Identifier: CC-27704-28795
Scope and Contents

According to the author, this book consists of a series of poems which were inspired by Mel Bochner's drawings and installations. The shaped poem is reminiscent of Herbert's Easter Wings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Working It Out / Scher, Paula; Rittner, Jennifer., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44888-47060
Scope and Contents

This is an illustration for an essay by Claudia Goldin which makes the point that women are not giving up careers for home and family. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

World Visual Poetry / Soroka, Mykola ; Higgins D ; Cobbing B ; Sackner MA ; Rypson P ; Garnier P ; Lora-Totino A ; Padin C ; Nazarenko T ; Miroshnychenko M ; Iov I ; Trubaj V ; Apollinaire G ; Mayer HJ ; Williams E ; Kostelanetz R., 1999

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Identifier: CC-34017-35693
Scope and Contents

There is a brief, very informative abstract in English at the beginning of the book. The book is divided into three chapters, viz., 1) Evolution of visual poetry to the 20th century, 2) Contemporary visual poetry of the 20th century, and 3) Evolution of Ukrainian visual poetry in a world context. A photograph of Soroka flanked by Dick Higgins and Marvin Sackner taken at the EyeRhymes visual conference at Edmonton, Canada 1997 is reproduced. Marvin Sackner is characterized as "the owner of the biggest archive of visual poetry."The book depicts more than 20 examples in the Old Ukrainian language and 49 examples in many national literatures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Xerolage: The Flowers of Mental Illness and The Big Bozo. No.34 / David Daniels., 2005

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Identifier: CC-48461-69489
Scope and Contents

The flower poem/stories are all in the form of varied flowers. The Big Bozo poems consist of different shaped abstract objects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005