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Keith hand colored his trade edition book and added fragments of text, with West African cultural images, and integrated elements of music scores with the pictographs and signs. This book is hand colored and collaged by the Keith from his trade edition book designed by Bryan McHugh. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The collage depicts positive-negative letters that appear to spell "CFO." There is a carbon-copy typewriter poem on the verso -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The labyrinth form of this poem spells out its title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The collaborative book is in homage to Africa. Edited and published by Bob Cobbing. An original typed poem by Bill Keith, "ancestral dancers," that appears in this book is held by the Sackner Archive. Several of the original drawings by Pierre Garnier are also held by the Sackner Archive and catalogues as a separate record. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The poems have the appearance and sound quality of Rap Concrete Poetry like those composed by Kenneth Goldsmith.Wikipedia: William "Bill" Keith (January 20, 1929 -- September 1, 2004) was an American artist who began his artistic life as a painter, but moved into photography and visual poetry. His visual poetry ran a full gamut from calligrams inspired by Apollinaire and other early 20th Century French poets to Lettrisme to the Minimalism and Op Art of the 1960s.As his work developed, Keith concentrated increasingly on African and African-American themes and sources. This development toward African roots and branches led away from the Roman alphabet and more toward the store of iconography and symbolism from Egypt to South Africa to the American diaspora. Consequently, Keith developed graphic techniques suggested by textiles, wood carvings, bronze casts, ceramics, and other indigenous arts.An example of Keith's recreation of the substance of his visual style and the very nature of...