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Minimalist poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 778 Collections and/or Records:

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

 Item
Identifier: CC-11696-11914
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

O'er, 2010

 Item — Box And-Andre: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
Identifier: CC-52003-73105
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of concrete poems that are printed one to a page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Ohio City Series: Fuck Poems. No.3 / Susan Koppelman Cornillon., 1965

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Identifier: CC-05192-5292
Scope and Contents

Edited by d.a.levy. One of the poems in this book, "Susan Under John Poem," appears in a different layout in Polluted Lake Series No.10, also held by the Sackner Archive. The theme of the poems is the sexual act expressed by repetitive printing of the word "fuck." The author subsequently wrote feminist critical texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Ohio City Series: Got Butter On It. No.6 / d.a. levy., 1965

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Identifier: CC-05188-5288
Scope and Contents

Edited by d.a.levy. Theme relates to signs that might have appeared in a newspaper or magazine that advertised "bread." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Ohio City Series: Over. No.2 / Kent Taylor., 1965

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Identifier: CC-05191-5291
Scope and Contents

Edited by d.a.levy. The word "over" printed above a rightward placed, directional arrow appears on each page including the final one. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Ohio City Series: Summer from under a bush. No.1 / Thom Szuter., 1965

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Identifier: CC-05193-5293
Scope and Contents

Edited by d.a.levy -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Ohio City Series: Winter:1965. No.8 / Thom Szuter., 1965

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Identifier: CC-05187-5287
Scope and Contents

Edited by d.a.levy. Poem consists of a single word place strategically on the page, viz., "snow above distance" to engender a vision of a landscape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Oiyeau, 1987

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Identifier: CC-06039-6153
Scope and Contents

The book contains reproductions of paintings by Martha Alt and a word glossary. The line drawing in the book depicts a bird. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Oiyeau, 1987

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Identifier: CC-06043-6157
Scope and Contents

The book contains reproductions of paintings by Martha Alt and a word glossary. The line drawing in the book depicts a horizontally split pyramid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Oiyeau / Marron, John., 1987

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Identifier: CC-06040-6154
Scope and Contents

The book contains reproductions of paintings by Martha Alt and a word glossary. The line drawing in the book depicts a stylized bird. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Oiyeau / Marron, John., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-06041-6155
Scope and Contents

The book contains reproductions of paintings by Martha Alt and a word glossary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Oiyeau / Marron, John., 1987

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Identifier: CC-06042-6156
Scope and Contents

The book contains reproductions of paintings by Martha Alt and a word glossary. The line drawing in the book depicts a stylized propeller. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

one cent: A History 2nd Edition. No.283/Oct / Mark Laba., 1991

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Identifier: CC-05227-5327
Scope and Contents

This was first published as Pomez A Penny #68, Sep 1981 in a rubberstamp broadside edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

one cent: A New Calendar. No.321/Dec / bp Nichol., 1997

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Identifier: CC-30387-31803
Scope and Contents

This is the 2nd edition of this booklet; the first was published in Ganglia 5 cents in 1969 and is also held by the Sackner Archive. These brief poems are printed one to a month, e.g., december dismembered, january mortuaried, march parched, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997