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Minimalist poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 778 Collections and/or Records:

Nailsworth Series: A is for Artist... / Furnival, John., 1994

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13186-13487
Scope and Contents

This is part of the Nailsworth series of prints and consists of a listing of phrases beginning with the letter "A." In a letter to the Sackners, Furnival indicates that he intends to do the entire alphabet in this format. The print is stored in the Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Nailsworth Series: X is for Expecting... , 1995

 Item — Folder 60: [Barcode: 31858072537941]
Identifier: CC-13187-13488
Scope and Contents

Stored in The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Nailsworth Series: Z is for Zany... , 1995

 Item — Folder 60: [Barcode: 31858072537941]
Identifier: CC-13188-13489
Scope and Contents

Stored in The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

National Book Festival: Water Poem #3. / bp Nichol., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-28062-29220
Scope and Contents

The poem reads wa, ters, tir, ring. The duplicate's matches have been used up. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Nerves / Aballea, Martina., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-25690-26150
Scope and Contents

This booklet has triangular shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Neue Texte: Quadrat Studie. No.13 / Friedrich Achleitner., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-38288-40184
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a single word in varied positions within a square. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

New Direction in Stairs / Young, Karl., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-50126-71188
Scope and Contents

This work is also designated as Card 30 from "Stories from the Flats." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

New Exercises / Jamme, Franck Andre ; Charles Borkhuis, translator., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-50611-71684
Scope and Contents

First published in French in 2002. The sentences on each page are arranged in block form like an ancient Roman tablet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Nine Poems, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-18073-18443
Scope and Contents

These poems deal with detail of a still-life in word constellations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

no confetti or rice, on the steps or inside / Van Horn, Erica ; Cutts, Simon., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-00774-793
Scope and Contents

This is the wedding announcement of Van Horn & Cutts. The pages are blank except for one page rubberstamped with their wedding date, May 6. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Noise 2 / Maret, Russell., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-06677-6796
Scope and Contents

The poem printed in black block capital letters across the center of each page reads "Silence oscillating between seen & unseen resonates deafening echoes." The background text consists of densely printed randomly arranged letters printed in several shades of red ink. The covers of the book are printed with a black on gray background letter picture. The black fabric on the box resembles book covers and the gray fabric on the sides of the box gives an appearance of pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

O: Il Divertimento Intellettuale dell'Infinito / Ferrari, Vincenzo., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-11276-11491
Scope and Contents

The drawings are done on different colored papers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

O.A.P.T. / Cutts, Simon., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-19094-19473
Scope and Contents

Also designated A Wild Hawthorn Press Tea Card. The title is an acronym for Old Age Pensioners Tea. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Ocean Stripe Series 3 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-11695-11913
Scope and Contents

According to Ars Libri: "The rarest volume of the Ocean Stripe Series, a lyrically beautiful concrete poem revealing a rainbow of die-cut colored papers, announced by the word "arc" after repeated leaves of "ark." The inspiration is the story of Noah. Loosely inserted, the passage from Genesis 9:13: "I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token for a covenant between me and the earth...." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965