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Several images depict lines of handwritten poetry with images of the artist's hand. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Pages from "Das Buch Sabeth" are depicted on pp 351-354 of Gilbert's "Bewegung im Stillstand, a book that is held by the Sackner Archive.Harvad University symposium 2004 (abridged pdf file): LIZAVETA MNATSAKANOVA (Netzkowa) is a Ukrainian poet fhom even many specialists have never encountered/. She is a rarity among contemporary poets: an elderpractitioner of visual poetry and the art of the hand-made book, an emigre living in Vienna, a trained musicologist who wrote widely about classical composers, and finally a prolific creator of poems and drawings. She has never sought a wide readership nor pushed for the publication of her works and yet now, uch to her delight, readers and audiences are seeking her out. She has spent as much time in academic settings as in the worldsof performed music, museum art, and modern poetry, yet Mnatsakanova is not entirely at home in any one of these worlds. She is a restless, energetic creator whose work opens the boundaries between poetry and music...

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In a forward, G. Janecek writes that, "Elizaveta Arkak'evna Mnacakanova is a prominent member of the contemporary Russian avant-garde, notable for her application of musical forms to poetry and for her focus on paronamasia as a dominant poetic technique...She is the only contemporary poet who has a close affinity with music and who uses quasi-musical forms as structures in poetry." The concrete poems are handwritten using layout and varied styles of calligraphy. Pages from this work are depicted on page 321 of Gilbert's "Bewegung im Stillstand, a book that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.