Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. The book is a narrative story about a woman who has a break-up of a love affair. Each page has polaroid photographs depicting punctuated, typewritten text or images collaged over phrases accompl with automatic writing. The typed text of the photographs alludes to aspects of breathing, e.g. to escape she began to breathe deeply, with each measured breath, deliberately exhaled, the pace of her breathing, she sighed deeply loudly exhaled etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a put-together of the Gmicalzoma language of John Dee, magician and alchemist to Queen Elizabeth during Shakespeare's time with the typographical design of Iliazd. The title page contains ciphers from a book by Dee himself. The tiles consist of nine small tiles joined together by wooden dowels and Hirschman mentions that he was seeking a "geometric Zaum" by the the rota-tora-orat box simulation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Homage to the thirteenth century Spanish Kabbalist poet Abraham Abalafia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The jars simulate anatomic specimen containers. The box is entirely collaged both on its outside and inside with texts from an old medical dictionary or compendium of medical terms. This book object was Collins' response to Marvin Sackner's sending her a copy of the exhibition catalogue, "The Beauty in Breathing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page of this book depicts a framed, surrealistic image of a person in profile that has been defaced by calligraphic and abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book consists of a dried rose flowers in a printed folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Burtner cut the page number and part of the text from page 13 of every book in her library and placed the small squares into randomly selected groupings, 48 to a page to form fortuitous poems and coincidences of meaning. The Sackner Archive also holds an original page from this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Lorraine Bodger is a writer, illustrator and editor who has exhibited at The Center for the Book Arts in NYC. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem is by Claire (composed in 1981) and the calligraphy by Spencer. Isabelle Spencer (1924-2011) was a teacher in the British school system and a calligrapher. The other copy of this book is owned by Paula Claire. The poem is in the poetic style of naming ships by Ian Hamilton Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this creative bookwork, Lum altered a standard text by substituting words and word fragments in many of the sentences in the original book. Other languages were also introduced as were highlighted texts and handwritten images. These were then printed as another book that is this entry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The exhibition was curated by Anne Anninger. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The words of Martin Luther King in this poem relate to the first bombing of the Gulf War on the same day as King's birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is a trade edition facsimile of an original book (1985) made and held by Ely based on the notebook of the artist's grandfather written on a trip to Egypt in 1928. Ely created this stunning book with his personal language, maps, charts, continents and astrological/hieroglyphic symbols. The Sackner Archive holds several of Ely's original bookworks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is slightly ripped in the top center so that is actually flops when held. The pages are divided in half and are to be flipped to complete the sentences, as in a student's work book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book originally published in 1924 by the Macmillan Co. was altered by the the artist into a book object with the shape of a portion of a face including the nose. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the 2nd edition of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.