Shaped Poetry

by (Multiple); Todd, Glenn (Editor); Hoyem, Andrew (Notes)

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San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1981. Limited Edition. No binding. Fine. One of 300 copies, elephant folio size, 30 leaves, with companion volume, in box, with plexiglass viewer. A superb marriage of poetry and typography, "Shaped Poetry" consists of a suite of thirty typographical printed sheets, with "the component letters and symbols of [the] poems...so arranged upon the page that they form a visual image reflecting the meaning or subject matter of the text" (n.b., from the bibliography of The Arion Press). "The selected poems range from 300 B.C. Greece through George Herbert's 'Easter Wings', Mallarme's 'A Throw of the Dice', Apollinaire's 'It Is Raining', E.E. Cummings' 'Grasshopper', to Dieter Roth's 'Concrete Poetry' and John Hollander's 'Swan and Shadow' of 1970. The other poets include (in chronological order) Simias, Theocritus, Porfyrius Optatianus, Eustorg de Beaulieu, Robert Angot, Robert Herrick, Justus Georg Schottel, Charles François Panard, Lewis Carroll, Christian Morgenstern, F.T. Marinetti, André Breton, Gertrude Stein, Man Ray, Dylan Thomas, Eugen Gomringer, May Swenson, Philip Lamantia, Augusto de Campos, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Andrei Voznesensky, and Andrew Hoyem" (ibid). With the original plexiglass viewer, so often lacking, the viewer with a prop for display and a device on the back for wall hanging, made by Frank Vineri of Èclat Studios. ___DESCRIPTION: The poems printed with different hand-set types on a variety of handmade papers from "mills around t

• Publisher: The Arion Press
• Year: 1981
• Edition: Limited Edition
• Binding: unknown

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