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Minimalist poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 97 Collections and/or Records:

[12 Poems] (240463-150663), 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-08756-8930
Scope and Contents

This work consists of 12 concrete and conventional with handwritten corrections. The poem, POEME BLANc (140663) consists of the title with an empty space below it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Air Letters / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1969

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Identifier: CC-11895-12117
Scope and Contents

This page includes the text of the poems for the printed booklet. On the verso, Finlay provides the meaning of the acronyms for two of the poems, viz., "The Sonnet's Poem: S.W.A.L.K." (Sealed With A Loving Kiss) and "The Forrest Poem: St A.G." (St Anthony Guide). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Cantabile, 1970

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Identifier: CC-00921-945
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a single written word on each of the three pages, viz., voice, memory, stream. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

comerlos salvador, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51999-73101
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. The poems deal with political unrest in El Salvador. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

dark cloud, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-52000-73102
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. The poems intermingle Bennett's calligraphic, stylized words with printed texts by McMurtagh. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Diamond-Studded Fishnet, 1982

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-13006-13298
Scope and Contents

This card also served as an invitation to a private viewing of "A Pittenweem Fancy" by Finlay at Kellie Lodging during the Royal Burgh of Pittenweem Arts Festival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Eatc, 1965

 Item — Folder 78: [Barcode: 31858072538378]
Identifier: CC-58784-65149
Scope and Contents

his image was printed by Brice Marden. Saroyan received a $5,000 grant from NEA to produce this print and FOUR other minimalist, concrete poems. This grant prompted William Proxmire, senator from Wisconsin, to award his Golden Fleece Award to the National Endowment for the Arts as one of the most outrageous examples of slap-your-forehead misappropriations. In his book "an/thology of pwoermds" Geof Huth writes the following: "I began to write pwoermds after becoming entranced by Saroyan's eyeye. The simple beauty of that poem haunted me, even though (and maybe because) the poem began as a typographical error of Saroyan's and it took a friend of his to point out to him its signficance (Solt, Concrete Poetry, 57)." This print was redone in 1989 as a silkscreen orint in 1989 in an edition of 150 with a priceof $1,000 on the internet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Els Entra-I-Surts Del Poeta: Poemes Publics, 5, 1987

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Identifier: CC-22433-22857
Scope and Contents

Originally published in 1973, fifth of seven books covers Brossa's work for the period 1969-1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Els Entra-I-Surts Del Poeta: Taranna , 6, 1988

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Identifier: CC-31584-33081
Scope and Contents

First of six volumes covering J. Brossa's works of the period 1969-1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988