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Shaped poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 124 Collections and/or Records:

The Eiffel Tower, 1995

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13314-13615
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint on different paper (Arches 88) of the same print from the sixties -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Light Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37364-39217
Scope and Contents

In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on sequential pages 167-171. The shape of the poem consists of five poems with abstract shapes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Multi-Wing Multi-Being Multi-Sing Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37361-39214
Scope and Contents

In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 43. The shape of the poem is a dragonfly viewed from above and this mentioned in the concluding phrase, "Stars shine bright on shatter light fate twitch wings finning out inner atmosphere character. Thee.The. That's go with the flow of the delicate Herakleition transparent inner stratasphere dragonfly light wings, folks." The dragonfly's body consists of rhyming nonsense words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Paean to Various New, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37354-39206
Scope and Contents

In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 8. The shape is that of the lower half of a New York man's body peeing on the sidewalk. The last word of the title together with the urinary stream documents this shape, "New Yorkers Pissing on the Sidewalk." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Petit Eternal Return Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37355-39208
Scope and Contents

In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 11. The shape is a mandala that surrounds a triangle (from the words in the poem, this signifies a pubic triangle). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

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 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

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

 Item
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

Tower, 1971

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: A-Ba: [Barcode: 31858072491164]
Identifier: CC-25638-26096

Tower of Pisa, 1995

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-54728-990162
Scope and Contents

The poem is formed by dense clusters of words and letters except for the arches that are formed by lines to provide the shape and tilt of the Tower of Pisa. The subject matter deals in part with nations who have held the tower during its existence, e.g., France, Germany, and Italy. The print is silkscreened onto Arches 88 paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Tower of Pisa , 1965

 Item — Folder 58: [Barcode: 31858072537925]
Identifier: CC-54809-420239
Scope and Contents

The poem is formed by dense clusters of words and letters except for the arches that are formed by lines to provide the shape and tilt of the Tower of Pisa. The subject matter deals in part with nations who have held the tower during its existence, e.g., France, Germany, and Italy. This unsigned print is depicted in black on page 36 of Furnival's book "Lost for Words" (2011). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Tower of Pisa / Furnival, John., 1965

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-13331-13632
Scope and Contents

The poem is formed by dense clusters of words and letters except for the arches that are formed by lines to provide the shape and tilt of the Tower of Pisa. The subject matter deals in part with nations who have held the tower during its existence, e.g., France, Germany, and Italy. This print is depicted in red in one image and black in another image on page 36 og Furnival's book "Lost for Words" (2011). The Sackner copy is printed in blue ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Trasparenze Reciproche, 1995

 Item — Box 318: [Barcode: 31858072490778]
Identifier: CC-26855-27325
Scope and Contents

Produced on the occasion of an exhibition at Galleria Derbylius in Milan. The collage is a cut-out celluloid angel onto which Arias-Misson has written a poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

[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