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This poem, based on "Il Pleut" by Apollinaire, has drawings of little leaves instead of the letters. This symbolizes the falling of leaves in the fall rather than rain as in the original poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This poem, based on "Il Pleut" by Apollinaire, has drawings of little leaves instead of the letters. This symbolizes the falling of leaves in the fall rather than rain as in the original poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Houedard has typed "for dsw" (identity?) at uppper left dide of this work/ -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a poster of the same image of the print in the Sackner Archive printed for the Cambridge Poetry Festival at the Kettle's Yard Gallery. The bottom edge contains details of the exhibition. Finlay cites two references to this image as follows: Ovid's Metamorphoses and Wittkower's The Sculptures of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Historical Research Unit, Uniforms of the SS. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These three prints depict the individual figures in the print Apollo and Daphne: Design for a Wall, 1992. Apollo is depicted in a red symbolizing strength whereas Daphne is printed in camouflaged green indicating uncertainty of pastoral serenity. Laurus depicts a silhouette of a green tree. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this version of the print the figures of Apollo in red and Daphne in green are combined into a green tree. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this version of the print the figures of Apollo and Daphne are outlined in black and are combined into an outlined tree all against the image of a drawn black brick wall. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card depicts a black and white photograph of a field in Strathclyde near Finlay's home. It is captioned, The wine-red sea, the turnip-marbled field. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This version is actually unique because the final version was entirely printed. It has been designated as Opus 13. In addition, it includes Phillips' handwritten notations. Depicted in Tom Phillips: Works Texts To 1974, page 259. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Notes read "Motto variation on Christian Wolff's 'Stones' (from Prose Selection). Little drops of water bore holes in stones. OP. XIII. / Stage proof [silkscreen with gouache] / Aquae guttae saxa excavant. / (Little drops of water bore holes in stones.)" Added: CEND.

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The image is an armored tank camoulaged with green leaves and background suggesting a garden but there is a contradiction to the title which refers to the pastoral mountainous region in ancient Greece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image on this card reads in bold type "Arcadia." Below it in smaller type is W.D. Property. The latter relates to the action taken by the Strathclyde Region taxation office on Little Sparta in 1995. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Consists of a boxed set of nine papercard model gliders to be cut from the prints. Each glider has been embellished with a military decal of the countries that fought World War II along with the name of a garden plant that has been printed on the rear wing. This was published in an unlimited edition. William Allen comments: Outer box made by the cult small press publisher Brian Lane. Box contains bag of elastic bands, nine silkscreen prints of different Arcadian glider kits and an instruction booklet. "Each airplane is embellished with a military decal and the name of an appropriate common garden feature has been printed on the rear wing. When the airplanes have been constructed, they may either be displayed together as a squadron or, if you have access to a garden, they should be carefully placed in the relevant spot to act as markers or name tags and a pleasing focus of interest for when the flowers are out of season." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The prints making up this book depict Pride, Wrath, Envy, Sloth, Greed, Gluttont, and Lust. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The page, torn from a notebook, consists of handwritten lists of names of barges by Finlay for card printed in collaboration with Margot Sandeman. The drawing of the barge was later printed on the card in red ink. There is also a proof copy of the card with corrections in this Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These items constitute the working materials for the poem collection, "A Mastful of Hankies." The manuscripts consist of conventionally composed poems, not all of which were used in the final version of the work. Maquettes for the folder and cards and directions for color stock of paper are included. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents In September 1973, Finlay writes to Andrews about making picture poems as bronze medals. He describes and includes a small sketch of the USS Enterprise, an American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a Greek dome. Finlay's plays off this ultra modern ship with a classic Greek theme, the basic elements of the Universe, Earth, Air, Fire, Water. He conceptualizes the Universe as an Enterprise, the aircraft carrier as Earth sailing in Water which launches Fire-carrying planes into the Air. Finlay continues with an explanation of Whimbrel and Petrel, a one word Elegy to these old sailing barges put out of work with the internal combustion engine - Petrol. The 3rd Medal is based on the one word poem, Through a Dark Wood - Midway. Andrew provides sketches in October 1973 but in a subsequent letter from Finlay that is contained in the Torso Aircraft Carrier Archive, Finlay expressed disappointment with them. He drops this project with John Andrew but continues it to fruition with...