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On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Sheila E. Murphy has been creating visual poetry, including asemic work, over the past 11 years. Her work has been included in multiple exhibitions internationally. Murphy's textual poetry has been a major commitment in her life for more than three decades. Current work incorporates hand-drawn images that are subsequently treated electronically and presented in multi-layered formats. Recent book publications include visual poetry: permutoria (with K.S. Ernst) and The Case of the Lost Objective (Case), a solo book that features both visual and textual poetry. Murphy has lived most of her adult life in Phoenix, Arizona. Sheila says: "These are the pictures that found the hand that found the light that found the punctuation that found a language past the language." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet Appel writes that as an artist I'm looking into and at things that exist along the boundary line between writing and drawing, reading and looking. In the series included here, I've put aside all words that could determine a poem in order to consider the visual possibilities of the poetic form without them. Diagrams emerge, architecture, energy fields, flow charts, blueprints, and compositions of assorted marks relating to each other in confined spaces"¦ I have published several books concerning different aspects of this subject. Shadow Poems is a collection of tracings of the shapes of actual poems by various authors. As it were explores the story form much as these explore the form of a poem. Wordless (poems) blurs the line between written and drawn. (all available through Amazon.) I live and work in New York. Rosaire says: "these visual poems use no words but rely on drawing, marks on paper and subtle color to express their forms." -- Source...

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Helen White (www.krikri.be/helen) was born in Britain in 1977 and now lives in Ghent, Belgium, where she co-organizes festivals and other poetry events as a member of the Krikri polypoetry collective. Recent publications include a contribution to the anthologies Zieteratuur (Uitgeverij Passage, Groningen, 2010) and Last Vispo (forthcoming). Her chapbook How to Quote Visual Poetry is no. 94 in Luc Fierens' postfluxpostbooklet series. Inspired by the miniature format of the series, this chapbook is a collection of fragments from larger projects along with poems that would otherwise be too small to print. Helen says: "I have always experienced poems as tangible objects: as a child, my favourites were the ones that felt like putting a marble in my mouth and walking around with it hidden under my tongue. I make poems with kaleidoscopes, shadows, pebbles, my fingers. Most of the poems photographed in this booklet can be held in the hand,...

Scope and Contents Marco Giovenale lives in Rome. He's editor of http://gammm.org. His most recent book of (linear) poems in Italian is Shelter (Donzelli, 2010). His artbooks are Sibille asemantiche (Camera verde, 2008) and, under the name of Differx, aweapon (2008), Severe red (2010), unrelated | undepicted | (diptychs) (2010), and septemware (2011), all by Vugg Books. Some sibyls are also in the Anthology Spidertangle (Xexoxial, 2009). A gunless tea, collection of 23 prose pieces, was published for the 2007 Dusi/e-chap project (dusie.org.) The prose CDK was published in 2009 by Tir aux pigeons. An interview is here: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-65-marco-giovenale. For more information, please visit: http://slowforward.wordpress.com/bioen/. Marco says: "This book offers a variety of tablets or frames/plates of asemic writing: in cursive or glyphs style. My opinion is that asemic writing is a major path leading out of the western logos legacy. Generally speaking, twisted signs or tiny...

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Sveta Litvak has studied at Ivanovo art school. Lives in Moscow. Had some personal exhibitions at ZVEREV center of modern art. Poet well-known in literary underground, member of Moscow club "POEZIA", the author of several books. Some poems are translated by American, English, Serbian and Romanian poets. The organizer and artist of Club of literary performance, issues a samizdat magazine of literature and art. Works in mail art, book art, visual poetry, video. The participant of Art-Festivals in Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Serbia, Romania. Sveta says: "Exercises for attentive or superficial view and for inner speech also. Most of them want to be ritual. Sometimes they look like schemes and sometimes like a dance." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Vsevolod Vlaskine was born and grew up in Moscow, Russia. Currently he lives in Sydney, Australia .In his series of asemic photocalligrams, he explores the fluency of unobstructed, uncontrived movement mapped into the night landscape through the light of the full moon. He tries to remove photographic medium as a frame of reference, and to preserve the concrete materiality of the images, avoiding any editing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was given to the Sackners following the artist's tour of the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This drawing on irregularly shaped cardboard, consists of sections of multi-colored calligraphic texts, found, painted texts and handcolored images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image is an abstract brush stroked calligraphic mark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an extremely dense visual piece to express Hirschman's love of the gesture in his last bookwork commissioned by the Sackner Archive. A poem written about an Afro-American friend as text is obscured by overpainting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work is included in an envelope that contained Torque 1.2, Torque maximum rotational ephemeral series 1.1 and 1.2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work is included in an envelope that contained Torque 1.2, Torque maximum rotational ephemeral series 1.1 and 1.2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work is included in an envelope that contained Torque 1.2, Torque maximum rotational ephemeral series 1.1 and 1.2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The markings appear to have been made with spray paint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Several poems are illustrated with calligraphic drawings by Colleen Tesanovich. The calligraphic style is reminiscent of drawings by Judith Copithorne. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.