Skip to main content

Nuclear Breathing Exercises, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-03376-3430

  • Staff Only
  • Please navigate to collection organization to place requests.

Scope and Contents

This broadside represents the original printing; it was later reprinted in a smaller, folded size by Leeds Postcards. The progressive disintegration of the two phrases in the poem, i.e. Breathe In & Breathe Out, as the poem is read from top to bottom ends in the last three lines as "I, UT, and T." It expresses the futility of coping with nuclear activities either from the bomb or pollution to our aeroenvironment. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1980

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 broadside (letterpress) in [frame (wood, plexiglas)) ; 57 x 11 cm, in frame 67 x 23 x 5 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

Transferred to the Stanley Museum, 7/18/23.

Custodial History

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

General

Published: Leeds, England : Robert Richardson. Nationality of creator: British. General: Number of duplicates: 1. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: RED.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

Contact:
125 W. Washington St.
Main Library
Iowa City Iowa 52242 United States
319-335-5921