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Deals with interview of Ian Hamilton Finlay by Jackson regarding "Bicentenary Tricolour" produced to commemorate the French Revolution. The author explains the imagery in this commissioned work which was refused by the French government because of the incorporation of Nazi images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stored in Cozette de Charmoy box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Beat Hotel on 9 rue Git-le-Coeur in Paris, was the residence of the Beat writers during the years 1957 to 1963. It was here that Ginsberg wrote Kaddish, Gysin discovered the cut-up method and Dream Machine, Burroughs completed and published Naked Lunch, and Corso wrote the Bomb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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What began among a small circle of friends in New York and San Francisco during the late 1940's and early 1950's laid the groundwork for a literary explosion, and this striking anthology captures the storied era in all its incarnations - from the Benzedrine-fueled antics of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs to the painting sessions of Jay deFeo's disheveled studio, from the jazz hipsters to the beatnik chicks, from Chicago's College of Complexes to San Francisco's famed City Lights bookstore. Snapshots of lesser-known poets and writers sit alongside frank and compelling looks at the Beats' most recognizable faces. What emerges is a brilliant collage of - and tribute to - a generation, in a form and style that is as original as its subject. The text is by Harvey Pekar and others and the art is by Ed Piskor. Paul Buhle edited the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is the catalogue for the retrospective exhibition for Schippers in the Centraal Museum, Spring 1997. It includes documentary material of his Fluxus works, publications, radio shows and performances. Overlaping texts were printed in red (Flemish) and green (English) such that the opposite colored acetate sheet must be placed over the text in order for the selected language to be solely rendered visible. The envelope contains small paper reproductions of Schippers' works from the book. The presentation of text and images in this book that depend upon superimposition of colored acetate sheets is uncommon - this is the only book in the Archive so produced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition was curated by Peter Day. Excellent discussion and documentation behind the French government's decision to withdraw Finlay's commission on the Right Of Man for the city of Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Calendar design was done by Herbert M. Rosenthal. Consists of one poem print per month with a critical analysis by Stephen Bann on an accompanying page. The poems include ho/horizon, ajar, net/net, cork/net, acrobats, wave/rock, green waters, you/me, broken/heartbroken, wind/wind, ring of waves, and le circus. In the 1990 Finlay bibliography, a set of 12 framed poems from this calendar was offered for $3200 (calendar is out of print). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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O'Gallagher prints a hilarious spoof of an interview of Andy Warhol in concrete poetry that is depicted with this record. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This poetic discourse was delivered by William Gass at the Getty Center Summer Symposium "Reading and the Arts of the Book." The Sackners were participants in a panel at the symposium. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Krystyna Wasserman writes in her essay "The Brightest Heaven of Invention" that "Among private collections, the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami, Florida has been a source of continual revelation and several acquisitions, including "Unfinished Sympony" by Elena Presser." Many book artists included in this book are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackners attended this exhibition that consisted of mostly magnificats book objects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents An author and artist of the occult, Spare first created and published this book in 1913. His work can be compared to William Blake or Aubrey Beardsley; however it is more involved with witchcraft and sorcery. The illustrations contain hieroglyphics that Spare believed were the remains of an occult language; they were used by priests performing magical rituals. Spare himself believed he was in communications with extra-terrestrial intelligences. He sent a copy of "The Book of Pleasure" to Sigmund Freud who described it as "one of the most significant revelations of subconscious mechanisms that had appeard in modern times." Kenneth Grant contributed an introduction and biography to this 1975 edition of 1000 numbered copies; the Sackner copy is unnumbered.Spare conceived of the notion of "Sigils" in his philosophy. Sigils are monograms of thought, for the government of energy, e.g., all heraldry, crests, momograms, are Sigils and the Karma they govern. Sigils are made by combing...

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This book consists of a collection of essays dealing with the book. Mike Gibbs translated Mallarme's essay, "The Book" and illustrated it with photographs. Karl Young contributed an essay on performance books in which the book functions as a dynamic object; he also describes and depicts Mayan glyphs. Allison Knowles describes her Book of Bean; she was interviewed by George Quasha. Jack Hirschman translated the interview from Liberation with Edmond Jabes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This critical text on bp Nichol's 'Captain Poetry'was dropped from 'The Captain Poetry Poems Complete' by bp Nichol at the insistance of jw curry. It is issued now as Moments Cafe number seven and is stored in bp Nichol box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In the introduction, Golden writes about levy's "The North American Book of the Dead." He states that "this is not only a major epic spiritual hymn, it is one of, if not the major post-modern shamanistic-poetic vision of America written this century. Read it straight through and levy will take you on a trip through not just the times he lived in, but through all time. He was, first and foremost, a writer of space, yet as visionary as his voice was, to this point he has been recognized primarily as a writer of place.' And that place was Cleveland. Golden also contributed an essay, "Portrait of a Young Man Trying to Eat the Sun." There are eight colored photographic reproductions of levy's collages in this book. The collage reproduced on page 99 is held by the Sackner Archive. In addition, several works from the Sackner Archive are reproduced in this book. This book is stored near the d.a. levy material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Mention is made that Katz's work is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue depicts details From The Dull Brethren 1984, Preparations For Their Arrival 1984, The Centre of the Field 1983, and The Unbinding of a Hedge 1983 drawings. The first two drawings of the preceding are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Karl Kempton dedicated his 12 typoglifs in this volume to the poet-author Abd al-Hayy Moore, "bringing together sacred visual expression from around the world and wedding it to like-minded expression of the Native American Peoples, primarily of the Southwest and Central Coast of California." This book is stored in Lempton's box.Internet: Moore was born in 1940 in Oakland, California, his first book of poems, Dawn Visions, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, San Francisco, in 1964. In 1972 his second book, Burnt Heart, Ode to the War Dead, was also published by City Lights. He was the winner of the Ina Coolbrith Award for poetry and the James D. Phelan Award for the manuscript of poems in progress that became Dawn Visions. From 1966 to 1969, Mr. Moore wrote and directed ritual theatre for his Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company in Berkeley, California.When he became a Muslim in 1970, he took the name Abd al-Hayy, and began traveling extensively in Europe and...