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Minimalist poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 106 Collections and/or Records:

Pianostool Footnotes, 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-18107-18479
Scope and Contents

Designated Jargon 94. Includes reprints of prior publications, most of which are held by the Sackner Archive in their first issuance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Pianostool Footnotes , 1982

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Identifier: CC-18108-18480
Scope and Contents

Designated Jargon 94. Includes reprints of prior publications, most of which are held by the Sackner Archive in their first issuance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Plucked Plucked Plucked Plucked Plucked, 1967

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Identifier: CC-20147-20542
Scope and Contents

A siingle wor is printed on different colored paper stock, viz., PUT, (SIC!), CAT, & TOO. PIZZICATO, Clark's imaginative summation of the four words is printed on the inside back cover. The front cover shows incomplete pin holes on the lower right corner (plucked?) of one copy (purchased from William Allen Books) that is not present in the other. Designated No.114 in bibliography of book entitled "The Printed Performance Brian Lane Works 1966-99." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Poems Two, 1972

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Identifier: CC-32635-34220
Scope and Contents

The title actually is a misnomer; the book consists of several poems, mostly autobiographical in content. There is minimal usage of adventurous typography in the poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Polluted Lake Series, No. 3: OH4286AW, 1965

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Identifier: CC-04302-4382
Scope and Contents

Edited by d.a.levy. The title refers to a license plate of an automobile which has been printed on each of three pages four times in different typefaces. The last page depicts three hand formed letter "o's." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Polluted Lake Series, No. 4: Mist, 1965

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Identifier: CC-04301-4381
Scope and Contents

Edited by d.a.levy. One to three words are printed on each page. viz., "mist hung city," in varied combinations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Polluted Lake Series, No. 5: Conflict in Sonata Form, 1965

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Identifier: CC-04300-4380
Scope and Contents

Edited by d.a.levy. The theme of this poem is the eating of melons. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Prairie Poems, 1970

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Identifier: CC-38619-40528
Scope and Contents

Each orange card reproduces the orginal typed poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

pulate a rupture, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51998-73100
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. Each page depicts three elements, e.g., a written word in Bennett's unique style at the top, a brief sentence by McMurtagh in the middle, and an electocardiographic tracing consistent with an acute myocardial infarction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Quack Cures Pond / Furnival, John., 1998

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-30257-31661
Scope and Contents

This is a reprinting of a print from the portfolio, "Evelines, Headlines," done in collaboration with Furnival's first group of students and Ian Hamilton Finlay. According to Furnival, the portfolio sprang from a drawing that his daughter did of The Flying Scotsman - literally a Scotsman in a kilt with angel's wings. With respect to this poem, it might be a take-off on Basho's famous poem, Frog Pond Plop. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Rua De Llibres, 1980

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Identifier: CC-21066-21475
Scope and Contents

Accompanied by an etching by Tapies executed especially for this limited edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980