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Cole comments: "A collaborative visual poem... in the series of color Kodak prints (slightly reduced) of the original/master. Para'de was exchanged through the mail numerous times between the two artists and was the culmination of a linguistic discussion of the root 'para.' Para'de is completely collaborative in-so-far as it was treated as a single canvas and was painted in visual (non-literary) order. The piece grew in layers and rhythms." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Rosenberg writes that this book is about "bones imagery, fabric imagery, lines of words and fragmented words interact with the question, comments, the definitions of 'it', holes with color interaction, collage and the mice." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The pop-up consists of letters that form the word "books." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The theme of this work deals with the experience of spending one day in the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Many images are drawings of Rosenberg's studio. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that interacting within themselves and with the viewer/reader -- content, vehicle, medium, form and word, within a concept, pull together merging the themes and the means. It is you, the reader-viewer, that completes the work! Since 1977 -- uncountable visual poems, + 25 + small editions of artists' books, 100 + unique sculptural bookworks, a few with collaborators. Marilyn says: "TRANSPIRE TIER SPARE TEAR is made of altered visual poems. They are a merged version of 40 pages, of the hidden center in the artists' bookwork, TIER SPARE TEAR. This work unfolded, was shown in a few places, but the hidden spare visual poetry within was not revealed, not read, and never published. The bookwork's outer structure, the walls, in book format are folded and pressed together and are part of the visual poetry. "Now here are 16 visual poems. All interior pages are altered, some much more than others. Individual pages merge a bit here a bite there;...