Book 143, 1989

Item — Box: 313

Identifier: CC-02651-2694

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Scope and Contents

This is Smith's book number 143. Each line of poetry printed on 8 pencils that act as door hinges on the spine. The printed text on the pencils reads Weaving, Back and Forth, Writing in Time, Sewing my Words, Bowing the Box. The pages of this pie shaped book object are blank and as Smith explains in the colophon, ...the poem is not written by the pencils, but upon them. The binding was devised by Hedi Kyle and is called a piano hinge binding. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

Creation: 1989

Creator

Smith, Keith A., 1938- (Author, Person)
Kyle, Hedi (Binding designer, Person)

Extent

1 item (1 book object) : 1 book (31 pages) + sheet in artist bookbinding (pencils), held in slipcase (museum board, cloth covered, unconventionally shaped) ; 20 x 15 x 10 cm (book), 19 x 11 x 19 cm (slipcase)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, gift of Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

Materials Specific Details

General: Title provided by cataloger or by Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Published: Rochester, New York : Keith A. Smith. Signed by: Keith [Smith] (l.l.- inside front cover). Nationality of creator: American. Copies: About 40 total copies. 10 number copy.