A Model of Order: Selected Letters on Poetry and Making , 2009
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Scope and Contents
Amazon.com "It doesn't greatly matter to me whether I'm using plants or trees or stones or words or events," the artist, poet and gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) once told an interviewer; "the impulse is always to make a coherent order out of things." Through a carefully edited selection from a voluminous correspondence, A Model of Order tracks the unique arc of Finlay's development, from poet writing in Scots dialect, to Concrete poet, toymaker and deviser of poems and inscriptions in glass, wood and stone, installed in parks and gardens. The title derives from Finlay's famous definition of Concrete poetry as "a model of order, even if set in a space which is full of doubt," a definition conceived in correspondence with poet Pierre Garnier. Poet and editor Thomas A. Clark's selection of Finlay's letters-to Louis Zukofsky, Robert Creeley and Ernst Jandl among others-explicates a rigorous and moral vision of the act of making." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 2009
Creator
- Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1925-2006 (Person)
- Clark, Thomas A., 1944- (Person)
Extent
0 See container summary (1 soft cover book (57 pages)) ; 19.7 x 13.5 x .5 cm
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Location
alphabetical shelves
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 Ingleby Gallery, 2010.
General
Published: Glasgow, Scotland : WAX366. Nationality of creator: Scottish. General: Added by: MARVIN; updated by: MARVIN.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
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