Pignotti traces his development as a visual poet from 1962-2002 in this book. Several of his interviews by others are reprinted. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Obituary appearing on the death of Bing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

More than an album of photographs, more than an iconographic summation, this book is a new-style critical essay of the life of a writer, his works and his genius. It is like a film of an intellectual adventure showing the many faces of the writer, his gestures, memories of words and places, long friendships, and pages of his novels, scenes of his film making. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

DeFeo (1929-1989) was an important influence on West Coast artists of the 1960s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a WEB interview of the life of David Daniels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Pereira's book "The Lapis," held by the Sackner Archive, is analyzed in depth in the chapter on reconciling the inner-outer duality. This artist book "contains diagrams that allegedly provide the key to Pereira's geometric symbolism.. .sumptuously illustrated with paintings and diagrams...it is a record and self-analysis of two dreams" involving an oval stone of lapis lazuli and relating Pereira's fundamental assumption that society was evolving to a higher spatial consciousness. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Geers' works are "powerful environments of terror and violence, eroticism and poetry. [His] raw language explores the boundaries of art and what is permissible, provoking and arousing intense feelings of desire and danger; seduction and repulsion." This book about his work has a presentation like an artist book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is a compilation of Mahdaoui's press clippings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A major portion of the text consists of stencilled lettering. Includes a few sections of positive-negative stencilled lettering, similar to the images produced by Ann Noel in her prints. The themes of the book deal mainly with life, love and death. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dick Higgins, in his introduction, describes Porter as a "one-man art and technology movement...a brilliantly inventive but uncrackable Maine hickory nut." This book relates to the period when Porter left for Australia and supposedly sums up all his knowledge as a physicist, poet, publisher, sculptor, illustrator, and humorist. Bern Porter was born February 14, 1911 and died June 7, 2004. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Spacgna was born in 1936 and died in 1990. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is a brief illustrated biography of James Joyce. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book was edited by Carsten Ahrens who contributed an essay entitled "This book charts the principle works and installations by the artist, as well as his interventions in public spaces, set designs for opera, writings and poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Phillips writes about Cage (and could mean himself), "Art is done mostly by one person in a room and artists do not tend to look for heroes among the school-spawning tyrants of new orthodoxies: they seek the individual who offers fresh disciplines of liberty." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.