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Silhouettes / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Clark, Laurie., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-12534-12762

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Scope and Contents

The two facing pages of this book depicts silhouettes of four sailing and war ships with captions on the left side and two battle ships along with two imagined ships on the right side. The later consist of an astronaut's view of the earth entitled, "Astronaut's Flattop - earth, and a flower with two leaves in a pond entitled, L'envoi: Queen of the floating pond - Lys. The last page of the boat provides explanations for the captions of the poems. The Sackner Archive also holds the Archive for this work including another copy of the book as well as the ink drawings for it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1974

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 soft cover book (4 pages)) ; 29.6 x 12.8 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

box shelf

Custodial History

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

General

Published: Dunsyre Lanark, Scotland : Wild Hawthorn Press. Nationality of creator: Scottish. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

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

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