Internet: This work amounts to an illustrated prose poem rant on modern art and artists in general, touching on psychology, artistic theory, the working class and labor, politics, etc., and mentioning Gertrude Stein and John Steinbeck. This must be one of the strangest, if not one of the most overlooked works of visual poetry in the United States. "Gillespie was a member of the group that centered around Transition Magazine in the 1920's and 30's. His work not only eschewed standard spelling and punctuation, it incorporated symbols and drawings and resembles musical notation. A selection of his work appeared in the third issue of Beaudoin's little magazine Iconograph, and was the only section of the magazine that had to be mimeographed, as the printer couldn't handle the eccentricities of the piece" (Adam Davis) Abraham Lincoln Gillespie, Jr. was born in Philadelphia in 1895 and died in New York in 1950. "In 1922 he moved to Paris where became friends with writers James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, and was a frequent contributor to Eugene Jolas' Transition. Indeed, it is rumored that he began writing because someone suggested he looked like Joyce. Most of his work took the form of writings on music, theater and dance, but his language, with its combined words and typographical idiosyncrasies, related as much to poetry as to the subjects on which he focused. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.