The poem was printed by hand in the style of Iliazd's early futurist poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Jack Hirschman created this visual poetry book in an expressionistic style with the free-flowing text merging with the abstract portraits and markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The shape of the book object is bat-like. The main colors utilized, red and blue, refer to the new post-Duvalier Haiti. The box and book object are decorated with colorful Haitian words written in the Cyrillic alphabet because Hirschman regards the shape of Russian as central to his visual/verbal work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Thanegash refers to Thane Gash, a football player for the Cleveland Browns, who inspired Hirschman to become a football fan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was edited by Raffaela Marzano and Sergio Iagulli. The latter contributed one introductory essay and David Meltzer the other. These long poems describing the 'hidden" encompass a period of 1972 to 2006. They began from Hirschman's reading of a work allegedly written by le Comte de St. Germain, a noted mystical personage whose legend is that since the 18th century he reppears ever young even to this day. The word "arcane" is derived from the Latin word Arcanum which means a place where occult or esoteric books or objects are preserved. The forms of the Arcanes are developed from sudden flashes of thoughts to a phrase or event to manifest the inner voices that Hirschman hears. A drawing by Hirschman accompanies 100 copies of this book (Sackner Archive copy). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Hirschman remarked in a letter to the Sackners of September, 1989: "This is obviously an important work for me....I put in effect, together the fact of my finishing smoking with the holocaust, which I regard as the most profound -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In a letter to the Sackners, Hirschman explains that the two poems constituting this book have not been previously translated into English. These poems are about Calabria in southern Italy. The first poem mentions the Kaballah and letters in "black characters" that are unidentified. Pasolini though raised a Catholic has a Jewish grandmother on his mother's side. In one of his most important poems about Marx, Einstein and Freud, he speaks of himself as Jewish which is usually evaded in Italian circles. The second poem deals with Algerians living in Italy. Hirschman believes Pasolini used the cruciform to resolve religious textures in the two poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem was composed during Hirschman's Kabbalistic phase of his career. There are large Hebrew letters and words printed on the envelope and colophon. The poem and documentation are printed in Hirschman's distinctive holographic style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem was composed during Hirschman's Kabbalistic phase of his career. There are large Hebrew letters and words printed on the envelope and colophon. The poem and documentation are printed in Hirschman's distinctive holographic style. It also includes a photocopied broadside in homage to Jack Hirschman composed by John Thomas in 1973. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem was composed during Hirschman's Kabbalistic phase of his career. There are large Hebrew letters and words printed on the envelope and colophon. The poem and documentation are printed in Hirschman's distinctive holographic style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem was composed during Hirschman's Kabbalistic phase of his career. There are large Hebrew letters and words printed on the envelope and colophon. The poem and documentation are printed in Hirschman's distinctive holographic style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush and added color fields in acrylic paint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Theme of book relates to the beauty of the Californian Coast. A double entendre appears in the poem since the "bear and "star," words in the poem are in the cosmos as well as the Californian state flag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Theme of book relates to the beauty of the Californian Coast. A double entendre appears in the poem since the "bear" and "star", words in the poem are in the cosmos as well as the Californian state flag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.