Happy birthday Mike Belt flower love [small]

Concrete poetry

Visual poetry

Mail art

Correspondence art

Assemblage (sculpture technique)

Textile art

Fiberwork

Poetry -- Female authors

American poetry -- 20th century

Mailer envelope wrapped in pink cellophane over collage of “happy birthday” containing a broken wooden snowflake, costume jewelry, thin pink printed paper doily folded around white plastic cord, paper flower, small square of astro-turf like material, folded around paper bearing “happy birthday” written in fading ink containing a small envelope containing another small envelope reading “11/7/47” on outside and “Mike Belt” written on inside. Larger paper wrapped around dried fern-like grasses.

Etlinger, Amelia, 1933-1987

Amelia Etlinger Collection (PCMS-0060)

Poetry Collection Manuscripts (State University of New York at Buffalo)

State University of New York at Buffalo. Poetry Collection

1977-11-03

State University of New York at Buffalo. Poetry Collection.

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eng

Physical Object

Still Image

PCMS-0060_4_11

Clifton Park, New York

1970 - 1986

2015-10-05

Collection open for research.

Amelia Etlinger Collection (LIB-PC010)

4 images

tissue, wooden snowflake, cellophane, costume jewelry, paper doily, astro-turf, paper flower, plastic cord, plant material

Sent to Mike Belt, donated to the Poetry Collection by Ellen Marie Helinka.

Estate of Amelia Etlinger

fiber art

assemblage

9.25 x 4.25 inches