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Printed at the Salamander Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem was adapted from listings of ships by Fishing News. The card lists the specifications of three ships, Swanella, Sweet Promise, and Swift. Sweet Promise is printed in bold type as the poem for the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image on this poster is shelves of vacuum tubes labelled with prices and identification. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The pages of this book depict ancient engravings related to space travel and diagrams of brain functions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work consists of a 2 x 5 grid of enlargements of a fragment of flags flying on buildings in England as depicted on postcards. A caption written by Phillips is printed on the bottom of the print. The duplicate copy is unframed and stored in the wide flat files. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The suite of 26 collages with the first title [Paste Book Number One] are stored in a single folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The spools of thread in a box were mailed to the Sackners as a Christmas gift from Finlay. One spool has blue, the other black thread, serving as a metaphor for clear and stormy weather, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The spools of thread in a box were mailed to the Sackners as a Christmas gift from Finlay. One spool has blue, the other black thread, serving as a metaphor for clear and stormy weather, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book reproduces photographs of polished stones calligraphically inscribed with minimalist poetry referenced to mythology. The latter is printed on facing pages to the photographs. Finlay provides an explanation of the meaning of some of the more obscure phrases inscribed on the pebbles. Finally, he lists Detached Sentences on the Pebble at the end of the book, e.g., A pebble is a crumb of ancient geology, Kettle's Ward in Cambridge, England is the "Louvre" of the pebble, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.