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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 780 Collections and/or Records:

The Greek Anthology V / Paton, W.R., editor ; Theocritus ; Simmias of Rhodes., 1979

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Identifier: CC-04725-4814
Scope and Contents

First published in 1918, this anthology reprints Greek Epigrams in various metres, arithmetical problems, riddles, oracles, miscellanea, epigrams of the planudean anthology not in the Palatine manuscript, with the Greek and English texts on facing pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

The Heroic yet Deeply Art-Deco Transformation of a Top Notch Plastic Surgeon's Plastic Arts Challenged Trophy Wife a Neo-Poussin Landscape Gate / Daniels, David., 2001

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Identifier: CC-37363-39216
Scope and Contents

In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on sequential pages 289-290. The shape of the poem is a female figure seen from behind with a helmut on her head. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Importance of Swimming and Other Poems / Freifeld, Larry., 1968

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Identifier: CC-11744-11962
Scope and Contents

At the time of publication, the author was Vice-President and General Manager of Something Else Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Importance of Swimming and Other Poems / Freifeld, Larry., 1968

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Identifier: CC-52226-73348
Scope and Contents

At the time of publication, the author was Vice-President and General Manager of Something Else Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Joy Of Lex: How to Have Fun with 860,341,500 Words / Brandreth, Gyles ; Moran, George ; Aldridge A ; Carroll L ; Kaufman G ; Moore C ; Reed C., 1980

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Identifier: CC-20997-21406
Scope and Contents

Includes chapter "Poetic Pictures," which provides examples of shaped and concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

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 Name of the Bow / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1986

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Identifier: CC-12161-12385
Scope and Contents

The shape of this poem is a bow and arrow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

The Oscar Season Takes Shape / Anonymous., 2009

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Identifier: CC-49219-70261
Scope and Contents

This poem is printed in the shape of the Oscar for film academy awards using the names of the nominees. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

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 Pattern Poem / Church, Margaret; Simmias of Rhodes; Theocritus; Porphyrii PO; Forunatus V; Alcuin; Willis R; Puttenham G; Herbert G; Herrick R; Washbourne T; Crompton H; Brome A; Traherne T; Shipman T; Ayres P; Carroll L., 1944

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Identifier: CC-37087-38929
Scope and Contents This is a Ph.D. thesis whose purpose was to trace the appearance of shapes in English poetry in the 16th and 17th centuries. Church found that the pattern poetry had its origins in Greek and Hindi literature. Greek literature contains six examples of pattern poetry: an axe, an egg, a pair of wings, a shepard's pipe, and two alters. Church defines Carmina Quadrata as verses that contain as many lines as each line contains letters. Within these boxlike poems are acrostics, telestichs, and many pictures and designs. The pictures are formed by either capitalizing the letters which outline the figure or by writing them in inks of various colors. Quincunx are poems arranged in oblique lines that can be read from either the upper or lower levels to make sense with either choice (p.51). Pattern poems reached the Anglo-Saxon literature in the 8th century. Alcuin of York wrote two Carmina Quadrata addressed to the cross. Hrabamus Maurus was one of Alcuin's followers. In 1573, pattern poetry...
Dates: 1944

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 Poet and the Contemplative Life / Merton, Thomas ; Lax R ; Antonucci E., 1990

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Identifier: CC-31813-33331
Scope and Contents

The exhibition traced Merton's life from his secular period to his life as a monk and teacher, his public years, the hermitage period and his legacy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Pyramid of the Louvre / Smith, William Jay., 1990

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Identifier: CC-02069-2107
Scope and Contents

This is the original version of the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990