5 visual poems
By: Scott Helmes, Karl Kempton, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Philip Gallo, Jonathan Williams
Contributors: Hermetic Press
Publisher: Philip Gallo at the Hermetic Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minnesota]
Language: eng
Subjects: Visual poetry; Broadsides; Specimens
Other titles: Five visual poems
Notes: Title from portfolio.

Letterpress printed as broadsides, with colophon on verso of each sheet.

Portfolio has date 1966-86, but all broadsides printed in 1986.

Issued in portfolio of blue handmade paper.
Table of contents: title: Language / Scott Helmes. 1986. One of 100 copies printed in light gray on Okwara paper from Times Roman Semi Bold type; title: Poem / Karl Kempton. 1986. One of 100 copies printed in blue on light blue Magnani paper; title: Strawberry Hill / Ian Hamilton Finlay. 1986. One of 140 copies printed on light brown De Wint paper from Caslon type; title: My lipstick / Gallo. [19]86. One of 100 copies printed in red, green, blue and gray on Rives paper from Californian type; title: A discreet sign on the Steinway ... / Jonathan Williams. 1986. One of 130 copies printed in black with rules in several colors on light brown Arches paper from Univers type. "30 are numbered & signed and printed especially for Granary Books"; title: Colophon. This copy not numbered or signed.