[Fine Press - Arion Press]. Todd, Glenn, editor. Shaped Poetry: A Suite of 30 Typographic Prints Chronicling this Literary Form from 300BC to the Present. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1981.
Elephant folio. Loose as issued in original printed wraps; companion volume in original printed wraps; publisher's folding case; plexiglass frame.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies. Shaped Poetry consists of 30 poems printed on individual sheets of handmade paper, accompanied by a companion volume discussing the history of each poem. Authors include Robert Angot, Guillaume Apollinaire, Eustorg de Beaulieu, André Breton, Lewis Carroll, E.E. Cummings, Eugen Gomringer, George Herbert, John Hollander, Stéphane Mallarmé, Christian Morgenstern, Porfyrius Optatianus, Charles François Panard, Man Ray, Dieter Roth, Gertrude Stein, Simias, May Swenson, Theocritus, Dylan Thomas, and others. Arion Press Bibliography, 8.
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