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Author:

Grenier, Robert, artist. artist.

Title:

Sentences / Robert Grenier.

Edition:

First edition, first printing.

Publisher:

Whale Cloth Press,

Copyright Date:

©1978

Description:

500 unbound index cards ; 13 x 21 cm (in case: 14 x 22 x 14 cm)

Subject:

American poetry--20th century.
Artists' books--Cambridge--Cambridge--20th century--Specimens.
Livres d'artistes--États-Unis.
Livres d'artistes--Cambridge.--Cambridge.
Artists' books.
Massachusetts--Cambridge.
United States.
Sentences.
One-sentence poems.
Artists' books.
Lyric poetry.

Other Authors:

Kornblum, Cinda, 1950- donor. IaU
Whale Cloth Press, publisher.

Notes:

Limited edition of 200 copies, of which 26 are signed and lettered. Housed in a custom blue cloth Chinese-style folding box. Each index card has a "sentence poem" composed on an IBM Selectric typewriter using a Courier 72 (10 point) ball, printed centered on one side. Card stock is 110 pound index white. Order of cards is not important. Special Collections has copy number 89, inscribed by the author on title card. IaU Gift of Cinda Kornblum. IaU

Summary:

This is the most prominent of all the Language texts, and in its' original form is the scarcest text of that movement. The unbound cards present "random" possibilities for compositions. The book itself is sculptural. Both of these features are integral to the work. They reflect the Language movement, which reframed the aesthetic focus on the metrical line to use the sentence as the basic unit of poetic composition, and was also interested politically in the material nature of language as artistic expression.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)883718726

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)