Pages from "Das Buch Sabeth" are depicted on pp 351-354 of Gilbert's "Bewegung im Stillstand, a book that is held by the Sackner Archive.Harvad University symposium 2004 (abridged pdf file): LIZAVETA MNATSAKANOVA (Netzkowa) is a Ukrainian poet fhom even many specialists have never encountered/. She is a rarity among contemporary poets: an elderpractitioner of visual poetry and the art of the hand-made book, an emigre living in Vienna, a trained musicologist who wrote widely about classical composers, and finally a prolific creator of poems and drawings. She has never sought a wide readership nor pushed for the publication of her works and yet now, uch to her delight, readers and audiences are seeking her out. She has spent as much time in academic settings as in the worldsof performed music, museum art, and modern poetry, yet Mnatsakanova is not entirely at home in any one of these worlds. She is a restless, energetic creator whose work opens the boundaries between poetry and music and between poetry and the visual arts.Born in 1922 in Baku, Mnatsakanova worked in Moscow much of her adult life. She was trained at the Moscow Conservatory in piano and music theory, and in Russia she published books and articles about composers rather than her own poetry. She began to create hand-made books as early as the 1940s, but destroyed all this earlier work. Her current style of individually illustrated books dates from the 1960s. Friends in Moscow'sintellectual circles knew of her poetry and art, but she did not wish to make her work public. In 1970, the German novelist Heinrich Boll surreptitiously carried out tissue-thin pages bearing her long poem "Autumn in the Lazaret of Innocent Sisters," also known as her "Requiem." It appeared in a Paris almanac in 1977, with an illustration by the artist Mikhail Shemiakin, and it was her first publication anywhere.In 1975, Mnatsakanova left Russia and settled in Vienna. She taught music to children for whom she created an easier version of her name, Elisabeth Netzkowa, a pseudonym she still often uses in Austria. She began what is now thirty years of working, teaching, translating, and writing in Vienna. She continues to teach at the University of Vienna long past the age when Austrian professors are required to retire. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.