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Includes many previously published works on unbound pages, viz., These, Reflecting on War, A Mystery, Grecian Turn, Invocation, Too Collage (aka & they came, dancing all alone, On Waking this Morning, DShake A Foot, Instructions For Use, The Losing and The Basmajian Variations in A (minors). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These unbound pages were used for the final printing of the book published by Writers Forum. On the verso of some pages, handwritten, ink and graphite documentation as to their prior publication is provided. The manuscript includes ink drawings of the poems, "These" and "The Evolution of English." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This publication was done at the 2nd Toronto Small Press Book Fair. Writers were invited to submit one page of poetry or prose to the editors four days before the Fair. Nancy Kilpatrick contributed a poem shaped as a side view of a hamburger on a bun. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an exhibition review written for Score of "The Altered Page," an exhibition held at the Center For Book Arts that was curated by Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The is a business card for a lighting designer - the verso is black. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Book Thug Internet: Poetry, comic book art, pop culture, concrete poetry, the lyric, the myth of the cowboy, even the myth of the poet-hero: these are just some of the avenues explored by bpNichol in The Captain Poetry Poems. In this short portrait of the poet as a young man, our hero is a dilemma: part fabrication and part confession, Cap is a character created by these poems that extends their author into realms of possible identities. Who is Captain Poetry? Is he a poet? Is he a hero? Is he the bearer of heretofore important and unknown knowledge? Written at a time when questions about what poetry might be; when questions about what the figure of the poet might be, The Captain Poetry Poems showed Nichol grappling with some of the cliches inherent to both his craft and his identity. Playful, even at times silly, but never without the human intelligence Nichol is best known for, these poems may not be the "best" work in Nichol's oeuvre, but their experiments reveal important...

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The front cover has a printed concrete poem consisting of a tautologic representation in a text over text style of the title of this book. The inside back cover has a cellophane bag filled with strips of printed text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The five poems in this book are formed by fragmented letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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From the top of this poem to the bottom, curry creates progressive disintegration of the hand printed "word" to the written "word" to illegible calligraphic markings to abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the another version of this poem that was also written in 1979. Both versions are held by the Sackner Archive. In a vertical format, the word, "word" is first printed, then written, then scrawled, and finally rendered illegible as the handwriting progressively disintegrates. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover was designed by jw curry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This collection was placed on indefinite loan to the Library of Rewley House, Oxford University Department for External Studies. Each citation carries a brief annotation. The collection includes catalogues from the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Consists of a transcription of a 90 minute interview by Hubsch of jw curry. The cover photoportrait of curry was taken by Lance LaRoque. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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curry's book published by Utopic Furnace Press was appropriated from a chapter in a children's book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The labia contort was published in Curvd H&Z No.3, 1979, after having been rejected for Jim Smith's The Front. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This was subsequently published in Curvd H&Z No.309, 1985. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an unpublished manuscript. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These poems that were rejected for Curvd H&Z No.301, 1984, were retyped by curry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.