Donald Berger appears in the historical poetry archive through a single preserved entry, Annisquam, recorded in the sixteenth installment. The surviving record establishes the author’s full name, the exact title, and the work’s position in the publication sequence. These details provide a firm documentary basis for Berger’s place in the archive and define the limits of what can be said from the surviving material.
Annisquam in the archive
Annisquam survives here as a title-level record attached to Donald Berger. The title consists of one proper-name word, giving the entry an unusually concentrated visual and verbal shape. Its capitalization marks it as a specific name, while the absence of subtitle, punctuation, or descriptive qualifier keeps the archival form spare. The record itself preserves no poem body, so the title carries the entire surviving textual surface of the work in this archive.
The sixteenth installment places Berger within a specific historical sequence of contributors and works. That placement matters because an archive is read through both individual entries and their relation to a larger chronology. Readers moving through poetry from this period can locate Berger as part of a broader field of published work while retaining the exact limits of the surviving evidence.
What the record preserves
The record confirms three elements with precision: Donald Berger as the credited author, Annisquam as the title, and the sixteenth installment as the publication placement. Together they establish attribution and chronology. They also preserve the work’s original title form, which remains important for bibliographic identification, citation, and future comparison with any independently recovered copy.
The title’s compact form gives scholars and readers a stable reference point. A single-word title can carry many possible associations in a complete poem, yet this record supplies no evidence for choosing among them. The documentary value lies in the exact wording that survives. That exactness supports study of modern poetry archives, where partial records often become essential witnesses to publication history.
Berger in the publication sequence
Donald Berger’s appearance in the sixteenth installment contributes one identifiable point to the archive’s map of contemporary authorship. The entry can be read alongside other preserved records of contemporary poets, especially when tracing how names and titles recur across successive installments. Its value is cumulative: each confirmed author, title, and placement strengthens the continuity of the publication record.
Because the poem text is absent from the surviving entry, formal analysis remains limited to the title and its presentation. The archive therefore preserves evidence suitable for attribution, chronology, and title-level study. Readers interested in how archival fragments interact with poetic forms can treat this page as a documented boundary case: a work whose existence and placement are confirmed while its internal form remains unavailable.
A documentary trace
Annisquam also belongs to the wider history of experimental poetry archives in the practical sense that literary history often survives through uneven records. Here, the preserved trace is concise and exact. Donald Berger’s name, the title Annisquam, and the sixteenth installment remain the confirmed facts. They are sufficient to retain the work in the archive as an identifiable publication record and to give future research a precise point of departure.