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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 780 Collections and/or Records:

Postcard from Italy / Sutherland, W. Mark., 1993

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Identifier: CC-02751-2794
Scope and Contents

This is a shaped calligraphic image of Renaissance ceiling painting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Potes & Poets: Printouts. No.7 / Keith Rahmmings., 1981

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Identifier: CC-39145-41089
Scope and Contents

This is the second edition of the book which was first published in 1979 in an edition of 100 copies. It includes a reprinting of the poems from "12 x 12" first published by Permanent Press in 1976. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Prayer IV, 1984

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Identifier: CC-23046-23483
Scope and Contents

The support for this drawing is a flattened Heineken's beer cardboard box with its blank side primed for paint. Babilla is also a NYC playwriter and director. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Quatre Cents Hommes Encroix / Michaux, Henri., 1956

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Identifier: CC-31014-32475
Scope and Contents

The book binding was done by F. Michel who made a collage on the front cover in the style of an abstract human figure by Michaux. The original copy of the book was probably soft cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1956

Reft and Light , 1997

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Identifier: CC-37090-38932
Scope and Contents

This book consists of poems by Ernst Jandl along with multiple versions in text and layout of the poem by American poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

R.E.M. Period / Furnival, John., 1968

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Identifier: CC-13138-13435
Scope and Contents

This book reproduces segments from Furnival's standing screens as well as presenting an anti-Vietnam war collage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Retorno Al Oasis / Zeller, Ludwig ; Apollinaire G ; Wald S., 2010

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Identifier: CC-58651-10001883
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Ludwig Zeller Ocampo (1927-) is a Chilean, surreal visual artist/poet ow living in Mexico. His father came from Chile from Germany to work as a manufacturer of dynamite to the copper mines. From childhood he was a voracious reader and thanks to that learned poetry. Along with his first wife, Wera Zeller, translated to Spanish German Romantics. He was a cCutting-edge innovator and directed the Gallery of Ministry of Education in Chile from 1952-1968. That same year he left the gallery, founded the literary magazine and the Moon Coffee House in Villavicencio Street in Aubrey neighborhood of Santiago. In 1970, he organized the exhibition Surrealism in Chile in the Catholic University, which, in addition to his works, exhibited those of Roberto Matta, Nemesio Antunez, Enrique Zanartu, Opazo Rodolfo Sepulveda Viterbo, Valentina Cruz, Susana Wald and others. He left Chile the following year, along with his wife, artist Susana Wald, and three of her four children. They...
Dates: 2010

[Robed Figure] / Massoudy, Hassan., 1984

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Identifier: CC-62470-47618
Scope and Contents

Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California. Exhibition was curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

[round and round] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Finlay IH., 1963

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Identifier: CC-56073-9999520
Scope and Contents

This is a typed poem attributed to Ian Hamilton Finlay that depicts a carousel.The three poles read round and round and the horizontal words depict horses and zebras. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

[Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana] / Warschauer, Harry., 1983

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Identifier: CC-32198-33749
Scope and Contents

The image consists of portaits of Charles and Diana shaped by text dealing with the wedding. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Rune 6: Figures of Speech: A with past and future / Kempton, Karl., 1986

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Identifier: CC-56343-9999766
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Rune 6: Figures of Speech: and sometimes y / Kempton, Karl., 1986

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Identifier: CC-56331-9999755
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Rune 6: Figures of Speech: braille codex / Kempton, Karl., 1986

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Identifier: CC-56345-9999768
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Rune 6: Figures of Speech: broken promises / Kempton, Karl., 1986

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Identifier: CC-56330-9999754
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986