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Minimalist poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 782 Collections and/or Records:

und/was/ist/dem/schleier/ / Huber, Christine., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-09568-9758
Scope and Contents

Each page has a single handwritten word of the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

[Untitled] / Clark, Rod., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-17126-17484
Scope and Contents

Also designated hum2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Untitled: Spiral Binding / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12923-13215
Scope and Contents

Finlay draws an analogy to the page of a book and the sail of a boat in the text on the page of this spiral spine book, viz., Spiral Binding (page to cover) Spiral Binding (mast to sail). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Untitled: Wall Text Series [A Line of Foam] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12934-13226
Scope and Contents

The text reads "A line of foam along an empty shore." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Untitled: Wall Text Series [Letters and Numbers] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12935-13227
Scope and Contents

The text reads "Letters and numbers seen in reverse through a sail." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Untitled: Wall Text Series [Some Flakes of Snow] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12933-13225
Scope and Contents

The text reads "Some flakes of snow stirred by the wing of a pigeon." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

ur anus / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55786-9999316
Scope and Contents

The handwritten text on the verso is "ursnue." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Utopic Furnace Press: Mourning. No.7 / Nicholas Power., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-00993-1019
Scope and Contents

Also designated one cent #123. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

veda ho Rd / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55792-9999322
Scope and Contents

This is a play on the name Houedard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Venus / bissett, bill ; Lachance B., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-20951-21360
Scope and Contents

Bertand Lachance contributed photographs to this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Visitations / curry, jw ; Power, Nicholas ; Venright, Steve ; curry jw ; Power N ; Venright S ; Swede G., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-19606-19992
Scope and Contents

[see pdf for full text] This work was distributed at a poetry reading held at The Groaning Board, Toronto, 1984. As noted in curry's Gesture checklist (1992), it xonsisted of the following:VISITATIONS. edited by jwcurry, Nicholas Power & Steve Venright. 98 copies (of a stated loo), aug'29'84. 14 fascicules in a printed envelope, some of which were also released separately. of the 12 poems by jwcurry/Mark Laba, they were distributed variously 4 to an envelope & thus all issued in editions of less than loo. the individual items consist of the following but there were no complete work issued; the items marked 'X' are included in the Sackner copy. ... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Wall Text Series: Untitled [Part of a Plank...] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12960-13252
Scope and Contents

The theme deals with nautical terms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Water-Cooled Watercress / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Farthing, Julie., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-12522-12749
Scope and Contents

The poem has a green background color for the white text suggesting the green watercress and hence a subliminal picture poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990