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The First Fragment: The Case for the Burial of Ancestors Book 1, 1985

 Item — Box: 302
Identifier: CC-00117-121

Scope and Contents

Three wooden objects and a thimble are placed upright in a bed of beige colored gravel like a dessert landscape. The text is rubberstamped on paper inside the lid and reads "I am the grain of truth...I hold the vessels of history and shatter them at Inside the lid is a small coffin-like wooden box; a black box on the outside has a metal capital "F." This sculpture symbolizes the puppeteer, a founder of an imaginary civilization, the Hegamons, who is described on p. 17 of the book in the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1985

Creator

Extent

1 item (1 poem object) : 1 sculpture (stick, box, thimble, roller, paper, rubberstamped, gravel) in suitcase (wood, metal, wire, labels, handle, lock, hinges, plank, engraved) ; suitcase closed to 12 x 30 x 23 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, gift of Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

Materials Specific Details

Published: New York : [Publisher not identified]. Signed by: Paul Zelevansky (u.l.- suitcase bottom). Nationality of creator: American. Copies: About 1 total copies.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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