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This book "presents a comprehensive collection of the poet's handwritten, drawn, typographic and musical notation - works composed through nonintentional methods and which operate simultaneously as visual art, literature and scores for performance." The Steven Clay, Charlie Morrow, Anne Tardos, Kenneth Goldsmith, Julie Harrison, Susan Bee, Philip Gallo and Ian Tyson participated in its performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Kirby Malone and Marshall Reese. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents An Epigram is a brief, clever, and usually memorable statement. Derived from the Greek: "to write on - inscribe"[1], the literary device has been employed for over two millennia. The Greek tradition of epigrams began as poems inscribed on votive offerings at sanctuaries "” including statues of athletes "” and on funerary monuments, for example "Go tell it to the Spartans, passer-by"¦". These original epigrams did the same job as a short prose text might have done, but in verse. Epigram became a literary genre in the Hellenistic period, probably developing out of scholarly collections of inscriptional epigrams. Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between 'epigram' and 'elegy' is sometimes indistinct (they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise. Many of the...

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This book is a reworking and representation of material that originally appeaed in Rothenberg's "A Big Jewish Book" (1978), a book also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The page by Ann Noel resembles the "I" painting held by the Sackner Archive. No two I's are typographically repeated in this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Mac Low explains how these poems were composed as chance operations: "They are "French" by virtue of their source rather their language." Several were composed on Bloomsday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This edition reproduces the 1984 Black Mesa press edition that has been type set by Charles Alexander. The cover and end-papers were designed by Anne Tardos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Both plays were composed by means of chance operations. The words were drawn from a list of words obtained from the letters of the place-name titles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The mesostic that runs through all stanzas of the poem in a diagonal presentation reads, "Eve Rosenthal." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The mesostic that runs through all stanzas of the poem in a diagonal presentation reads, "Eve Rosenthal." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The mesostic that runs through all stanzas of the poem in a diagonal presentation reads, "Eve Rosenthal." A handwritten graphite note on the title page of one copy states" 1st state w/o copyright notice." The duplicate copy does not have this note. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Ray DiPalma. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The card is addressed to Bernadette Walsh aka Bernadette Mayer who heads The Poetry Project in NYC. Weiner has written on each ruled page of this student style notebook a series of promises some of which can be read in a straight foward fashion, others omitting articles, verbs and nouns, and still others an incorrect tense to the verbs. These errors increase progressively over the course of this book which begins, "I promise to write readible and coherent letters. I promise to write a filthy book." Further, the sizes of the writing are also instructions for printed layout. Finally, scatteed throughout the book is the phrase Big Word, another instruction. During the period of writing this book (one of several hundred in this style), Weiner became a pyschotic recluse living in Manhattan. She emerged from this state about 1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This beautifully produced catalogue contains descriptions and references to exhibition catalogues and artists magazines. Also included is an essay "By Virtue of Their Imaging," public works by four contemporary San Francisco artists. The inserted page is a listing of "0 to 9" by Vito Acconci. All the listed items in this catalogue are photographed and completely annotated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This piece was inspired by a question about a hat asked by Richard Kostelanetz to Jackson Mac Low. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.