By Ian Hamilton Finlay
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The poem presents in an undidactic way the ideas of clarity, resolution, and choice’ (Letter to Emmett Williams, 15 February 1967). wave / rock (1968). Originally realized as a poem-object in glass in 1966, typography by Hansjörg Mayer, cut and pasted by Ian Hamilton Finlay, sandblasted by T & W Ide, London; published in The Blue and the Brown Poems, 1968; another version was cast and exhibited in a park in Dunfermline, Scotland in 1969. The poet explains, ‘Where the letters meet and are superimposed they suggest the third word “wrack” (seaweed), and the thickened stems of the letters suggest, visually, seaweedy rocks.
Back in Glasgow, he disliked his new city school and left at fourteen. He never forgot the terror of the Clydebank Blitz (13–14 March 1941), which he endured shelter introduction / 7 ing with his family under a kitchen table. Thereafter, whenever there was a thunderstorm, he would go to bed and pull the covers tight over his head. To Derek Stanford he portrays the ‘blitz’ of an apocalyp tic Perthshire thunderstorm: ‘Are you afraid of thunder? I am terri fied. We were shaken about like crumbs inside a paper bag which was blown up with boiling air and then abruptly burst.
The publication of his stories in The Sea Bed, in 1958, marked the end of Finlay’s attempts to capture a world in prose. Now came the struggle to realize his vision in poetry, with the appearance of his i n t r o d u c t i o n / 17 first collection, The Dancers Inherit the Party (1960). The publication of The Dancers arose indirectly from a raft of new letter friendships with international poets, avant garde artists and publishers—Louis Zukofsky, Lorine Niedecker, Jerome Rothenberg, Ed Dorn, Robert Creeley, Jonathan Williams, Ronald Johnson, Robert Lax, Dick Higgins, Eugen Gomringer, Ernst Jandl, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Ad Reinhardt, Gustav Metzger and countless others.