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Minimalist poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 782 Collections and/or Records:

Do Not Fold, Plese! / Kocman, J.H.., 1970

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Identifier: CC-08070-8230
Scope and Contents

The envelope was addressed and mailed to Bob Cobbing. Each card gives the same admonition in a different language. The English word, "please" is misxpelled as "plese." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Dove... / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Farthing, Julie., 1989

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Identifier: CC-12381-12607
Scope and Contents

This a varient picture poem with the calligraphic text written on a solid grey colored background conjuring an image expressed in the text, viz., "Dove, dead in its snows." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Du Fykx / Di Palma, Ray., 1978

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Identifier: CC-15413-15737
Scope and Contents

The edition size is unknown but must have been small since the pages are hand rubberstamped. The pages read from right to left. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

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

Ego. / One Word. Two Words. / Gerz, Jochen., 1968

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Identifier: CC-27449-28497
Scope and Contents

The word "ego." is spelled out one letter by one letter on each of three corners and a period punctuation mark on the fourth corner of a small square which is scored and stained. The reverse side carries the two phrases, "One word. Two words." This work is designated No.491 in Gerz's Catalogue Raisonee Volume III. Note that ego is designated separately as No.500. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

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

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Identifier: CC-22433-22857
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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

Entrance Dance / Cole, David., 1986

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Identifier: CC-19755-20142
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The envelope has stencilled lettering. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986