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Shaped poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Orange Au Pair Girl, 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-11865-12086
Scope and Contents

The size of this edition is not known nor is it listed in Finlay's book Prints 1963-1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Plakat: Loakrime. No.9 / Philip Ward., 1967

 Item — Box 396: [Barcode: 31858072461605]
Identifier: CC-57147-51975
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive also holds the original typed manuscript for this poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Includes correspondence between Ward and John Furnival about Loakrime and poems sent to Ian Breakwell

Dates: 1967

Slovovyd, 1999

 Item — Box 616: [Barcode: 31858072461019]
Identifier: CC-34018-35694
Scope and Contents

There is an explanation and translation of the concrete poems in English at the back of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

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

[Ukrainian Concrete Poems], 1994

 Item — Box 616: [Barcode: 31858072461019]
Identifier: CC-02916-2960
Scope and Contents

Each print depicts the original poem in the Ukrainian language along with a English translation stapled to it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Verbotetture: Architetture di Parole Nello Spazio della Pagina, 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-35918-37682
Scope and Contents

Verbotecture is a neologism meaning a construction of words in the space of the page. This book is an anthology of previously published works of Lora-Totino dating from 1966 to 1998 They "identify with Concrete Poetry, but with the need of an accurate relation among the semiotic-graphical values and the meaning of the poem." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

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

Why Shiva Has Ten Arms, 1969

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
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

World Visual Poetry, 1999

 Item — Box 616: [Barcode: 31858072461019]
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