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[ARION PRESS]. Shaped Poetry: A Suite of 30 Typographic Pri...

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[ARION PRESS].?Shaped Poetry: A Suite of 30 Typographic Prints Chronicling this Literary Form from 300BC to the Present.?Edited by Glenn Todd. Printer?s notes by Andrew Hoyem. San Francisco: The Arion Press, [1981]. 2 volumes (text and suite), large folio. 30 typographic prints loose as issued; accordion folded poem laid in. Original printed black wrappers; original printed cloth folding box with Styrofoam walls (some light sunning near spine). Does not include the Plexiglas display frame. LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies. Among the poets included: Theocritus, Robert Herrick, Lewis Carroll, Stephane Mallarme, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gertrude Stein, Man Ray, E.E. Cummings, Dylan Thomas, May Swenson, and Andre Hoyem. This is the eighth publication of the Arion Press.