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Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California. Exhibitoin was curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Preacher Biscuit's Books: "Things I Wanted To Tell You by Kristen Merola is a project based on the compulsion to free oneself of ideas and thoughts believed to be unproductive, although significant. Kristen has photographed her many diaries and notebooks where compulsive entries are written over the top of one another thereby erasing ideas, thoughts, and emotive feelings through the act of writing. The obsessive need to write diaristically is glaringly revealed even if the words themselves are unreadable. The photographs poetically paced in this volume divulge seasons of the mind that frame a code of jumbled, overwritten thoughts. In the end, Kristen's work is illuminated through obstruction." Aaron Cohick, Text, Image, Writing, Reading, JAB 27: "Things I Wanted to Tell You is driven by the relationships between text and image. ...To read this book we must move continuously between two discontinuous worlds, two means of representing a world, the world. We fall easily into one, but...

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Marge Weber wrote a story illustrated by a page of text and images on a Persian page. She presented it to the Sackners for their 40th anniversary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This drawing has a hand-numbered 3 in the l.r. corner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, it is stated Kulemin that was Born in Russia (1960), - an artist, poet, author of many realised and unrealised projects out of definite esthetics; - an inspirator and organiser of various communication creative societies (KEPNOS, Group of Unknown Artists, Smolensk School of Appologists, etc.); - a participant of some poetic actions, exhibition and seminars (Russia, Germany, USA, France, Italy, Norway, Belgium, Macedonia"¦). - an author of the books: "It seems to have begun" (1994), "Odnohujstvenny Ulysses" (1995), "By the artificial way" (1998), "Multimatum" (2002). Publications: Mitin Magazine (Russia), Chernovick (New York- Moscow), Humanitarian fond (Russia), Limonka (Russia), "The Smolensk fortress" (collection, Russia), Cool-Strip-Art-Antology (Macedonia), Fiera Lingue (Italy), Risvolti (Italy), Another hemisphere (Russia), Slova (Russia). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, it is stated that Alexander Oiko was born in 1987 and lives in Khabarovsk, Russia. His works are published in such magazines as "Drugoe Polusharie", "Chernovik" and are the part of my book "Pyatna" ("Spots"). Besides visual poetry, he creates sound poetry and ZAUM. I regret very much that russian futurists of the beginning of 20th century have been forgotten undeservingly on their motherland. My creation is often called avant-garde? But I think, that mass-poetry hasn't been developing since 19th century. In my opinion, visual poetry shows author's feelings and makes images brighter. Visual poetry should be a standard and should become mass-poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, it is stated that John M. Bennett has published over 300 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials. He has published, exhibited and performed his word art worldwide in thousands of publications and venues. He was editor and publisher of LOST AND FOUND TIMES (1975-2005), and is Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries. Richard Kostelanetz has called him "the seminal American poet of my generation". His work, publications, and papers are collected in The Museum of Modern Art and other major libraries and institutions. His PhD (UCLA 1970) is in Latin American Literature. Ars Poetica: "Be Blank -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Misha Magazinnik was born in the "former" USSR & has been living in the US for over 20 years. He is a member of vy da vy sindikat artist collectvie (vydavy.com), co-founder of NY-based experimental Russian-language publication "Magazinnik" (magazinnik.com). His translations, poetry, visuals have been published in the US, Australia, Europe & Russia; his artist books are in private collections. Some images in this book are collaborations with Felix Davelman, Masha Magazinnik & Timosha Magazinnik. Aleksei Kruchenykh is the source of it all! Misha says: "Mostly mixed media collages plus finger-paint with organic alphabet pasta." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, Jane Dunnewold writes, I am self-taught. I am especially interested in writing and making as integral aspects of the creative process. Works begin as white silk and are transformed through dyeing, painting, drawing, and screen-printing with sand. I seek a whole larger than the sum of the parts and am currently intent on discovering what it takes for a visual surface to be perceived as poetic. I write about the creative process at existentialneighborhood.blogspot.com, and authored Art Cloth: A Guide to Surface Design on Fabric (Interweave 2010). I maintain Art Cloth Studios in San Antonio, Texas, and teach a dozen workshops a year. My website is complexcloth.com. Cover: Meditation One; the writing reads: Live in present time. / Seek only the Truth. / Surrender your will to God. / Love is the only true power. / Honor thyself. /Honor one another. / All is One. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Michael Basinski is the Curator of the Poetry Collection, the University at Buffalo. He performs his work as a solo poet and in ensemble with BuffFluxus. Among his many books of poetry are Poems Popeye Papyrus (Slack Buddha Press), Of Venus 93 (Little Scratch Pad) and All My Eggs Are Broken (BlazeVox). His poems and other works have appeared in many magazines including Dandelion, BoxKite, Open Letter, Torgue, Explosive Magazine, First Offense, Terrible Work, Kenning, Lungfull, Lvng, Generator, Tinfish, Curicule Patterns, Score, Unarmed, Rampike, House Organ, Ur Vox, Damn the Caesars, Pilot, 1913, Filling Station, Public Illumination, and Poetry. Michael says: "SNAP! is a narrative "opem' (a poem with many points of entry) improvisational (out of mind reading aloud at point of encounter), aural and visual/manuscipted, comic book, performable and emergent poetry. "Hell has no power over pagans.' -- Rimbaud." -- Source of annotation:...

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Luc Fierens (www.vansebroeck.be) was born 1961 in Mechelen (BE). He's "an active mail-artist since 1984, when he began delivering his distinctive flavor of poesia-visiva-inspired visual poetry to individuals, exhibitions, and archives around the planet. His method of production is collage, a particular brand of verbo-visual collage that makes it points by abrupt collocations of disparate fragments of image and word." (Geof Huth 2007). Recent publications include contributions to anthologies: Zieteratuur (Uitgeverij Passage, Groningen, 2010), Ein Alphabet der Visuellen Poesie (edition ch, Wien, 2010) and Poeti D'Europa (Fondazione Sarenco, Italy 2009). "Luc Fierens is a master of the narrative and discursive serial collage poem." (Jim Leftwich 2005) Luc says: "This series is a critique on the position of women's beauty in society : past, present & future. These layers make connections between image/word. My language of bodies...

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Martha Deed is a poet and web.artist who lives on the Erie Canal in North Tonawanda in a house that causes writing to happen. Martha's chapbook The Lost Shoe, and her tiny booklets Heat (flash fiction) and her 500 Favourite Words have previously been published by chapbookpublisher.com. Her work has appeared on line and in print in many professional and literary journals. Martha Deed's websites: www.sporkworld.org/Deed and sporkworld.tumblr.com. Several of the images in this series have appeared previously: the cover and #10 were included in the Avant exhibit at the Skywalk Gallery, Columbus, Ohio; #6 can be seen at unlikelystories.org; #7, was included in the Erasures Exhibit at Yale University; #s 8-10 can be seen at logolalia.com/alteredbooks; and #15 will be in Rubbings (a forthcoming anthology). Martha says: "This series reflects a feeling of apprehension, the story of an actual murder in images when the facts alone were not...

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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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Jeremy Balius was born in Dallas Texas, raised in Giessen Germany, educated in Los Angeles California, lived in Berlin Germany and has called Fremantle Western Australia home for the last eight years. His asemic pieces have appeared in The New Post-literate. He is the author of wherein? he asks of memory (Knives Forks & Spoons Press, UK) and looks after Black Rider Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.