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Picture poem

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Elegy for 'Whimbrel' and 'Petrel', 1978

 Item — Box 190: [Barcode: 31858072459609]
Identifier: CC-12413-12640
Scope and Contents

The image of a sailboat with a small toy sailboat on its stern, is surrounded by text which reads "Elegy for 'Whimbel' and 'Petrel': Petrol." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Deep Red-Brown / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12990-13282
Scope and Contents

Finlay writes that the statement is "A likely fragment of Archilochos suggested by a sentence in Basil Greenhill's "Sailing For A Living." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995