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Shaped poetry : a suite of 30 typographic prints chronicling this literary form from 300 BC to the present

Title
  1. Shaped poetry : a suite of 30 typographic prints chronicling this literary form from 300 BC to the present / edited with an essay on shaped poetry & notes on the selections by Glenn Todd ; and with printer's notes by Andrew Hoyem.
Published by
  1. San Francisco : Arion Press (566 Commercial St., San Francisco 94111), 1981.

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Additional authors
  1. Todd, Glenn
  2. Hoyem, Andrew
Description
  1. 1 suite ([31] loose leaves of plates) : ill (some col., 1 folded); 42 cm.) + 41 cm.).
Subject
  1. Concrete poetry
  2. Poetry -- Collections
  3. Poetry -- Translations into English
  4. English poetry -- Translations
  5. Broadsides
  6. Printing -- Specimens
Call number
  1. *KP+++ (Arion) 82-35
Note
  1. One of 300 copies offered for sale.
  2. Poems in broadside format, printed in various colors, each on a different handmade paper (42 x 31 cm).
  3. Issued in a case of black paper over boards (46 cm.) together with a Plexiglas frame for interchangeable display of the individual broadsides.
  4. Poem no. 12 (Mallarmé) in a circular accordion fold accompanied by translation on separate sheet. Poem no. 17 (Breton) printed on both sides of sheet.
Title
  1. Shaped poetry : a suite of 30 typographic prints chronicling this literary form from 300 BC to the present / edited with an essay on shaped poetry & notes on the selections by Glenn Todd ; and with printer's notes by Andrew Hoyem.
Imprint
  1. San Francisco : Arion Press (566 Commercial St., San Francisco 94111), 1981.
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Added author
  1. Todd, Glenn.
  2. Hoyem, Andrew.
Research call number
  1. *KP+++ (Arion) 82-35
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