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Minimalist poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 102 Collections and/or Records:

Works 1965-1972 Volume 2, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27401-28444
Scope and Contents

This book was compiled by jw curry from unpublished (?) concrete poems of bp Nichol's early work which were composed by typings or writings. curry had access to these works through cataloging of Nichol's archive. He has had access to such work through his cataloging of Nichol's archive. The works emphasize the diversity and intelligence of Nichol's typewriter poetry; the calligraphic works are presented with far less examples. The cited authors in this book consist of those whom Nichol composed a poem in their style or as an homage to them. The covers of the book have been collaged with a dust jacket created from an overprinting of a cover by Coach House Press entitled, 'New Wave Canada.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Works 1965-1972 Volume 3, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27402-28445
Scope and Contents

This book was compiled by jw curry from unpublished (?) concrete poems of bp Nichol's early work which were composed by typings or writings. curry had access to these works through cataloging of Nichol's archive. The works in this volume emphasize Nichol's visual poems and concrete poems made with letraset.; the typewriter poems are presented with far less examples. The covers of the book have been collaged with a dust jacket created from an overprinting of a cover by Coach House Press entitled, 'New Wave Canada.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996