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Also designated Writers Forum Poets number five. Jeff Nuttall designed the covers. The first issue consisted of 12 copies in which Ginsberg's name was misspelled as Ginsburg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The two-part exhibition "The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters" was organized by Rodney Phillips, curator of the Berg Collection, as part of the Centennial celebration of The New York Public Library. This catalogue is based on the exhibitions which presented writers from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries with drafts, letters, diaries. photographs and memorabilia in a personal and intimate setting. An essay by Dana Gioia, "The Prado of Poetry: A History of the Berg Collection" describes the background of Dr. Albert and Dr. Henry Berg and how their collection became one of the world's primary sources for literary research on American and English writers. In a scholarly introductory essay, "The Magical Value of Manuscripts," Dana Gioia writes, "The manuscript of a literary work became more than words; it represented a direct and unmediated physical link between viewer and author - a holy relic or shamanistic fetish...The scholarly alibi of libraries that...

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The Bomb, a pattern poem, is reproduced on the fold-out pages. This is the 11th printing of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue annotates and depicts several books from the library of Pound and Rudge from their years in Venice. The dedications and the marginal notes reflect the personal and intellectual influence of Olga Rudge. The collection includes several volumes inscribed and gifted to Pound by Allen Ginsberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a list of books from the library of Alan Clodd, a supplement to Catalogue1358 Against the Grain, ossued by Maggs Bros. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Robert H. Jackson contributed an essay "William S. Burroughs: A Man with Qualities" and loaned much of the manuscripts to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, Cobbing describes his journey from Kyoto to Tokyo using maps, schedules, and poetry to trace the route. Allen Ginsburg's poem "The Change (Kyoto to Tokyo Express)" is also included. This copy is the first edition, the second edition also held by the Sackner Archive was published in 1981 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, Cobbing describes his journey from Kyoto to Tokyo using maps, schedules, and poetry to trace the route. Allen Ginsburg's poem "The Change (Kyoto to Tokyo Express)" is also included. This copy is the second edition, the first edition also held by the Sackner Archive was published in 1975 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, Cobbing describes his journey from Kyoto to Tokyo using maps, schedules, and poetry to trace the route. Allen Ginsburg's poem "The Change (Kyoto to Tokyo Express)" is also included. This copy is the first edition, the second edition also held by the Sackner Archive was published in 1981 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue consists of lithographed reproductions of poems read on June 11, 1965 at the Royal Albert Hall that Trocchi described as a "Happening" because of the unexpected crowd that attended an avant-garde event in a conservative place. Topolski contributed charcoal sketches of the participants. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Essays by Frances Butler and Alastair Johnston present a historical, personal view of the founding of Poltroon, its philosophy and their artistic journeys during the twenty years of the press, a private voice in the public realm. They mention seeing the exhibition, "The Altered Page" at the Center for Book Arts, NYC consisting of works from the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Dennis Cooper provided an interview of Pettibon and Robert Storr contributed a survey of the artist's work titled "You Are What You Read." Ulrich Loock focuses on a single work "Vavoom" in his essay. The catalogue also includes a section on Pettibon's writings and a chronology of his work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This article presents a brief history of levy's stay in Cleveland culminating in a proclamation by its Mayor and Cuyagoaga County commissioners of February 14, 1986 as "D.A. Levy Poetry Day." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was published on the occasion of Francisco Clemente's exhibition at the Kunsthalle, Basel in 1984. It reproduces colored paintings by Clemente and Ginsberg's handwritten poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated as A Cranium Broadside. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book documented a film by Peter Whitehead shot at a poetry reading at the Royal Albert Hall, London, June 11, 1965. It consisted of poems as well as stills from the film. The concrete and sound poems were contributed by Ernst Jandl. The book was also published by Grove Press in the United States. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.