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Minimalist poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 775 Collections and/or Records:

1 x 1 / cummings, e.e.., 1947

 Item
Identifier: CC-18888-19266
Scope and Contents

First published in 1944 by Holt, New York. This copy is missing the dust jacket. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1947

2, From The Yard Of Thomas Summers & Co. / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1967

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Identifier: CC-11924-12147
Scope and Contents

This card was published in 1967 according to Finlay's bibliography but verso of card indicates that the year of publication was 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

2 Notices / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

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Identifier: CC-12974-13266
Scope and Contents

This booklet reproduces signs beside the pool at Little Sparta, "Please Do Not Feed The Boats," and to be placed near the pool at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, Please Do Not Sink The Flowers." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

3 Blue Lemons / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1967

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Identifier: CC-11923-12146
Scope and Contents

According to the Finlay bibliography, this card was published in 1967 but the verso of the card indicates 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

3 Notations Rotations / Octavio Paz; Toshi Katayama., 1974

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Identifier: CC-04731-4820
Scope and Contents

Toshi aka Toshihiro Katayama met Octavio Paz at the Carpenter Center at Harvard. Movement and transformations in Toshi's work was related to the form and meaning in the poetry of Paz. In this piece, Toshi made the designs for which Paz invented the words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

3 Notations Rotations / Octavio Paz; Toshi Katayama., 1974

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Identifier: CC-04732-4821
Scope and Contents

Toshihiro Katayama aka Toshi met Octovio Paz at the Carpenter Center at Harvard. Movement and transformations in Toshi's work was related to the form and meaning in the poetry of Paz. In this piece, Toshi made the design for which Paz invented the words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

3 Spaces / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Turnbull G., 1991

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Identifier: CC-11824-12043
Scope and Contents

Finlay notes that "Spaces" are poems of two lines and a title, with an unusual space between the lines. This poetic structure was devised by Gael Turnbull. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

3x5: All Love is Sudden. No.1/Aug / JonArno Lawson., 1990

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Identifier: CC-01272-1303
Scope and Contents

Edited by Damian Lopes. The title on the envelope is "all of a sudden." The title of publication relates to the printing on a 3" x 5" card. The two editions of this card appear to be identical and neither are signed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

3x5: All Love is Sudden. No.1/Aug / JonArno Lawson., 1990

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Identifier: CC-01273-1304
Scope and Contents

Edited by Damian Lopes. The title on the envelope is "all of a sudden." The title of publication relates to the printing on a 3" x 5" card. The two editions of this card appear to be identical and neither are signed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

5 Words / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1986

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Identifier: CC-12093-12317
Scope and Contents

The poem consists of five words arranged in a column, viz., unda, onda, woge, vague, wave. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

12 exercises / Valoch, Jiri., 1976

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Identifier: CC-57385-63416
Scope and Contents

The words that are printed three times on each page are: white, square, traces, second, beginning, stroke, light, flowing, step, cloud, quivering, stone. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

[12 Poems] (240463-150663) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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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