Be Joyful, 1999
Scope and Contents
This gift to the Sackners for the millennium is a small wooden box stamped "Fragile 2000." It contains a golden egg nested in fine, spicey straw, with a red patch of silk. The loose sheet is printed with a poem " Be joyful - though you - have considered - all the facts." This work by Bart is a metaphor for the fragility of the future and its bright hope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 1999
Creator
- Bart, Harriet, 1941- (Person)
Extent
1 item (1 poem object) : 1 egg (gilded, plastic) + cloth + straw + 1 sheet (printed), all in box (wooden, rubberstamped) with string ; 7 x 5 x 5 cm (egg), 8 x 10 x 8 cm (box)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, gift of Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Harriet Bart, 1999.
Materials Specific Details
Published: Saint Paul, Minnesota : [Publisher not identified]. Signed by: H. Bart '99 (l.r.- b.c.). Nationality of creator: American.
Topical
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
125 W. Washington St.
Main Library
Iowa City Iowa 52242 United States
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