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Minimalist poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 782 Collections and/or Records:

butterfly / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55789-9999319
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1968

Canal Game / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1967

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Identifier: CC-11698-11916
Scope and Contents

The pages have been cut horizontally into three equal portions. Each cut segment has a word or phrase printed red, purple or green that relates to sights and sounds apparent from being on or near a canal. These cut segments can be arranged by the reader by placement from different pages to form a variety of poems.Stored in portfolio box with original drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Canal Game / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-11699-11917
Scope and Contents

The pages have been cut horizontally into three equal portions. Each cut segment has a word or phrase printed in red, purple or green that relates to sights and sounds from being on or near a canal. These cut segments can be arranged by the reader by placement from different pages to form a variety of poems.Stored in portfolio box with original drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

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

C'est mon dada: Thunks. No.12/Dec / Les Coleman., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47652-68666
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a series of funny one-liners, e.g., Give up and quit quitting, Poison-pen love letters, The time-bomb ran out of time, etc., along with incongruous line drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Chanson d'Automne / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1986

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Identifier: CC-12565-12797
Scope and Contents

The text on one sheet reads "glades of sunlight" and is printed on warm, golden paper. The second sheet reads "forests of cloud" and is printed on purple earthy paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Codine / Evason, Greg ; curry jw ; Miskowski M., 1987

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Identifier: CC-13858-14163
Scope and Contents

The introduction (interdeduction) was written by jw curry; the cover and book design were done by Mike Miskowski. This signed copy has grey colored letters of the title on the cover whereas the unsigned copy has yellow colored letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Codine / Evason, Greg ; curry jw ; Miskowski M., 1987

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Identifier: CC-30668-32110
Scope and Contents

Introduction was written by jw curry; the cover and book design were done by Mike Miskowski. This unsigned copy has yellow colored letters of the title on the cover whereas the signed copy has grey colored letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Codine / Evason, Greg ; curry jw ; Miskowski M., 1991

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Identifier: CC-35520-37260
Scope and Contents

Introduction was written by jw curry; the cover and book design were done by Mike Miskowski. This unsigned copy has yellow colored letters of the title on the cover whereas the signed copy has grey colored letters. This is the third printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Collected Poems 1961-2000 / Denner, Richard., 2001

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Identifier: CC-50774-71852
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive also holds a book illustrated by Richard Denner aka Rychard that is entitled "Poeme Nudes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Collected Poems: There are Words / Turnbull, Gael ; Finlay IH ; Fisher R ; Creeley R ; Christie J., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46968-49706
Scope and Contents Gael Turnbull (7 April 1928 - 2 July 2004) was a Scottish poet who was an important precursor of the British Poetry Revival. Turnbull was born in Edinburgh and grew up in the North of England and in Canada. He studied Natural Science at Cambridge University and graduated in Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951. In 1957, Turnbull started Migrant Press, one of the first British-run presses to focus on poets in the modernist tradition. His work was featured in the groundbreaking Revival anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain (1969). His own books include A Gathering of Poems 1950-1980 (1983) and Rattle of Scree: Poems (1997). He was also published in the anthologies The New British Poetry (1988), Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970 (1999) and Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (2001). He returned to Edinburgh in the early 1990s. In this city, he worked on what he termed kinetic poems; texts for installation in...
Dates: 2006