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 "title": "Visual poetry before concrete — Optatianus Porphyrius's grid poems, Mallarmé's Un coup de dés (1914), Apollinaire's Calligrammes (1918)",
 "edition": "Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius, Panegyricus Constantino Augusto dictus — the carmina cancellata (grid poems with an inner text picked out in the lattice); scan, edition unidentified in the item's metadata; Stéphane Mallarmé, Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard: poème (1914; first in Cosmopolis, 1897) — scan; the page spread is the text; Guillaume Apollinaire, Calligrammes: poèmes de la paix et de la guerre (1913–1916) (Paris: Mercure de France, 1918) — scan; the figured poems are the text; Guillaume Apollinaire, Calligrammes (1918) — Project Gutenberg transcription, with the figured poems as images",
 "language": "lat; fra",
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  "payload": "Public domain: Optatianus (4th c.), Mallarmé d. 1898, Apollinaire d. 1918; scans of public-domain volumes (Internet Archive); Project Gutenberg packaging under the PG licence. The edition of Optatianus behind the Internet Archive scan is not named in its metadata: recorded as unidentified, pending a reading of the scan's front matter.",
  "record": "CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only."
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  "fetched": "2026-10-15",
  "transport": "in-session fetch (Transport D); No-Double-Draw"
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 "scope": "Concrete poetry proper (Gomringer, 1953; the Noigandres group, 1952; Finlay; Garnier) is in copyright and is not seated. What is seated is its line: the late-antique grid poem, Mallarmé's spatial page and Apollinaire's figured verse, with the Futurist parole in libertà (Marinetti's Zang Tumb Tuuum, Govoni's Rarefazioni) in card 18/03 and Morgenstern's typographic poems in 18/07. The Hellenistic technopaegnia (Simmias, Theocritus's Syrinx) are in the theocritus seat and the Greek Anthology. Rabanus Maurus's In honorem sanctae crucis and George Herbert's 'Easter Wings' were not located in this pass; QUEUED.",
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  "Un coup de dés (1914) — 'N'ABOLIRA LE HASARD', in the scan's text layer",
  "Calligrammes — 'Il pleut', the poem set as falling rain",
  "Optatianus — the Panegyricus to Constantine, in the scan's text layer"
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 "why_seated": "The concrete poets, as far back as the public domain reaches. A poem whose layout is part of its meaning cannot be seated as running text alone, so this seat carries the scans.",
 "spine": "Visual Poetry",
 "ruling": "Lee Sharks, 2026-10-15: \"we need more seatings of avant garde literature. dada. farce. oulipo. futurist. - whatevers in the public domain. originals is good on classics, impoverished on modern. and i want the italian troubadors. and pound, more pound. need the cantos.\" — \"and the concrete poets\" — \"also need jarry, schlovsky, etc\" — \"it gets an ea-corpora deposit and a spine and a card on tll, bulk seatings per ea-corpora deposit is fine\"."
}