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Scope and Contents In this Archive, Finlay indicates that this booklet is a collection of 'one-word poems' about boats. The boats are illustrated, as types, in silhouette-form, and the words are to be thought of as being a kind of 'verbal silhouette' or boat-epigram. He explains the reasons for selection of the boat types into the booklet and states that "the idea will be to keep the printed text the same size - as it were - as the illustrations, so that the text can be thought of as kind of a 'verbal' silhouette." These instructions are provided to Laurie Clark for the illustrations and to Michael Harvey for the text layout. In a letter dated 15 August 1973 to Tom and Laurie Clark about the project, he discusses the writings of Simone Weil, is pleased that they liked "Straiks," brings up the Fulcrum Press controversy, mentions ideas for the illustrations of "Silhouettes" that Laurie should draw, and recommends two books to be read. In a letter dated 1 October 1973 to Tom and Laurie Clark, Finlay...

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This poem was composed after a work by Tom and Laurie Clark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This poem was composed after a work by Tom and Laurie Clark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem is printed on the inside of the several folded card, the larger brown card for sail, the smaller white card for sheep. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The two folded cards, one in brown and one in white color have a similar phrase, "folding the last sail" and "folding the last sheep," respectively. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Image on the card is a drawing of a plant with a clored butterfly on it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This proposal calls for installation of calligraphic plaques within a stone walls enclosed garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This proposal calls for installation of lettered benches in Latin and German within a garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each of the 24 pages of this book consists of a single picture poem in the style of Ian Hamilton Finlay with whom the Clarks have collaborated. For example, a sundial is depicted with the caption, "The metronome is accurate but the sundial is faithful." All the poems deal with the outdoors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.