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It should be noted that his book entitled "Cycle" (1964) hand printed at Indiana University is not listed in the chronology of his works published in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Hornick cites encounters with several poets and artists that are included in Sackner Archive. -- 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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Saunders writes about his career in graduate school and his philosophy of life with his wife Brenda. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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David Jones has been described as the greatest poet-painter since Blake and his work is rich in scope and complexity. Tom Phillips was influenced by him, particularly his use of carved letterforms. Jonathan Miles and Derek Shiel provided the text of definitive biography. The drawings of elongated religious figures made by Jones in the twenties may have influenced Houedard's religious drawings in the fifties. A chapter in the book details Jones' inscriptions and their relation to concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the biography of John Quinn, the greatest American collector of art and experimental literature of the early 20th century. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the biography of John Quinn, the greatest American collector of art and experimental literature of the early 20th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Unica Zurn's writings are largely auto-biographical and reflect her long journey into mental illness. She was the long-time companion of Hans Bellmer. She produced poetry, novels, anagrams and automatic drawings and travelled in the artistic circles of the Surrealists. "The years from 1957 to 1967 are documented in the main text of the Man of Jasmine...The cycle of her crises, the contrasts between the miracles, her feelings of megalomania and the crushing banality and tedium of life in mental hospitals, is captured vividly...Zurn's acumen and artistry, her virtuosity as a writer were able to withstand her mental crises and depressions and allowed her to add a further masterpiece to a small precious row of unclassifiable works." Zurn committed suicide in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Onomastics or onomatology is the study of the origin, history, and use of proper names. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition, that was curated by Judith Zilczer, dsplayed a fraction of the early 20th century modern art collected by Quinn, the most important collector of such art in America. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Jurgen Harten. The book was translated by Heather Eastes, Stephen Reader, and Annelies Dickler. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this auto-biographical speech given at the Grolier Club, the author mentions great bookshops that he visited including Leary's in Philadelphia. This was a favorite hang-up for Marvin Sackner when he was a teenager growing up in Philadelphia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition traced Merton's life from his secular period to his life as a monk and teacher, his public years, the hermitage period and his legacy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a biography of Bern Porter and his work as an avant garde artist and physicist. Porter worked on the atomic bomb project and quit his job when the bomb fell. The book describes his struggles of conscience and his attempt to find himself through his publishing venture and through research combining experimental scientific methods with artistic techniques. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the first edkition, first printing of the book. Page 202 mentions Merton's periodical "Monk's Pond" and his concrete poetry on page 502. The Sackner Archive also holds two original typewriter poems by Mott.Wikipedia: Michael Mott was born in London. His father was a solicitor and his mother was a sculptor from Denver, Colorado. Mott was educated in America and England. After his service in the British Army, he attended Oriel College of Oxford University, then art school and a year traveling in Europe and the Middle East. Mott then began his literary career taking a job in 1956 as the editor of trade journal, Air Freight. In 1957, his first collection of poetry, The Cost of Living, was published. On May 6 1961, Mott married Margaret Watt, a fashion designer, at St. John's Wood Church, London. In 1962, as the couple welcomed twin daughters, Mott's first novel The Notebooks of Susan Berry was published. Reviewer Kenneth Allsop writing for the Daily Mail called the book, "a...

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This play in three acts presented at the Plymouth Theatre, New York was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1942. Critics like Campbell and others stated that the play was modeled after the story line in Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. This book was first published in 1958; this is the second printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents In another version of this book, Francoise Mairey cancelled the text with ink markings to create an artist book that is also held by the Sacknar Archive. Barnes & Noble: This is the story of Paul Auster's typewriter. The typewriter is a manual Olympia, more than 25 years old, and has been the agent of transmission for the novels, stories, collaborations, and other writings Auster has produced since the 1970s, a body of work that stands as one of the most varied, creative, and critically acclaimed in recent American letters. It is also the story of a relationship. A relationship between Auster, his typewriter, and the artist Sam Messer, who, as Auster writes, "has turned an inanimate object into a being with a personality and a presence in the world." This is also a collaboration: Auster's story of his typewriter, and of Messer's welcome, though somewhat unsettling, intervention into that story, illustrated with Messer's muscular, obsessive drawings and paintings of both author...

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Tony Lopez contributes an in depth introduction including the history and participants of the Text Festivals from 2005. "An Alphabet of Fishes: Curating Bob Cobbing" by Philip Davenport is a detailed history of Cobbing and Writers Forum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.