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This is the deluxe edition. The prints and collaged pages are also presented as printed material within the periodical. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The back cover was designed by Christian Burgaud. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The back cover was designed by Valery Sherstjanoi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The prints and collaged pages are also presented as printed material within this deluxe edition of the periodical. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the deluxe edition. The prints and collaged pages are also presented as printed material within the periodical. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the deluxe edition. The prints and collaged pages are also presented as printed material within the periodical. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The back cover was designed by Opal Nations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The back cover was designed by Shaunt Basmajian. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There is mention of A.G. Rosen, a Goldsmith collector, who owns the lead copy of "Steal This Book." The Sackner Archive holds the plywood copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The color photographs in Minneapolis and Italy in this book were taken by Paolo Della Grazia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This illustrated essay deals with Segay and Nikonova's contributions to Offerta Speciale and Busta Sorpresa. It is stored in the Segay box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The pages of this issue are cut out of the corner near the lower spine to form a booklet within the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This article describes Joe Cardella's vision as editor of the assembling periodical, Art/Life. The Sackner Archive contains this periodical. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that he was born in 1942 in Torino where he still lives. During the 80's he began working on Visual and Sound Poetry and, at the same time, started doing performances usually with Carla Bertola, working on the idea of "Stagepoetry actions". He performed widely in Italy and different countries. In Visual Poetry he usually works on collages following a personal technique obtaining color from the surface of paper, a procedure he called "pulling up"; recently he is using blowing up from fragments passing through photos and then laser copies. He has taken part in many exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Since 1978 he is co-editor of the International Poetry Magazine Offerta Speciale. Alberto says: "My works have their origin in a particular kind of collage technique, some fragments of the original works have been photographed and reworked with laser xerox and form the basis for other works. Letters are important for their graphical form but...

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Each page reproduces a single concrete poem. The Sackner Archive also holds the manuscript for this work which has 40 pages of poems. Twenty-six poems were used for this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The box depicts two superimposed faces that have been enlarged with a photocopying machine such that the graininess of the original work has become prominent. Tweny artists were asked to make a box to hold 20 issues of the new series of Offerta Speciale; this is one of the boxes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.