Scope and Contents In this Archive, Finlay indicates that this booklet is a collection of 'one-word poems' about boats. The boats are illustrated, as types, in silhouette-form, and the words are to be thought of as being a kind of 'verbal silhouette' or boat-epigram. He explains the reasons for selection of the boat types into the booklet and states that "the idea will be to keep the printed text the same size - as it were - as the illustrations, so that the text can be thought of as kind of a 'verbal' silhouette." These instructions are provided to Laurie Clark for the illustrations and to Michael Harvey for the text layout. In a letter dated 15 August 1973 to Tom and Laurie Clark about the project, he discusses the writings of Simone Weil, is pleased that they liked "Straiks," brings up the Fulcrum Press controversy, mentions ideas for the illustrations of "Silhouettes" that Laurie should draw, and recommends two books to be read. In a letter dated 1 October 1973 to Tom and Laurie Clark, Finlay...

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The card depicts a line drawing of a flower bouquet and a caption, Charm, n., a something pleasing in a person or thing; it came in with the Revolution and went out with the war. Revolution refers to the French Revolution in this poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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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.