Scope and Contents Charles Bernstein writes in the introductory essay that "Figuring the Word" is a wide-ranging collections of Drucker's essays in which she "presents herself as a visual artist, a literary writer, a scholar/historian, and an aesthetician. In all these areas, Drucker has made substantial contributions. But it is her synthesis of these fields that is her most extrardinary achievement." Chapters of collected essays in the book include Writing as Artifact, including a section on hypergraphy and Maurice Lemaitre; Visual Poetics; Artists' Books Past and Future; The Future of Writing; Personal Writing. In the section "The Interior Eye: Performing the Visual Text," Drucker traces visual poetry in the perfomance work of Massin & Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano," Tzara's "Boxe," Marinetti's "At Night," Iliazd "Lendentua as Beacon," and Gomringer's "Ping Pong" and other icons of visual poetry.In the section, "Iliazd and the Book as a Form of Art," Drucker discusses and/or illustrates the...

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This issue consists of critical texts by and about Sharits as well as an interview about his work. The pamphlet dated 1971 appears to be a reproduction of a sketch for a film. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes "The Book as Container of Consciousness" which was given as an address at a conference on the book sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities. The Sackners were invited to participate in this conference and heard William Gass deliver this poetic essay at the final forum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The illustration for this article shows a goat with the Hebrew letters spelling "bubkes." The Yiddish translation is actually the beanlike excrement of goats. The common usage in English means "nothing." Other uses of Yiddish in American speech are discussed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The illustration for this article shows a goat with the Hebrew letters spelling "bubkes." The Yiddish translation is actually the beanlike excrement of goats. The common usage in English means "nothing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The author's annotations to each bookbinding presented are comprehensive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cover was designed by Wesley Tanner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes an essay on Islamic Calligraphy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the only full-length study of Finnegans Wake to outline and catalog the immense amount of naturalistc detail from which Joyce built the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's contribution was the last section of "Dictee," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition was curated by Scott Watson who also wrote the introductory essay. Works in this exhibition featured vividly colored semi-realistic human figures but also included bissett's line drawings and concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Elizabeth Armstrong curated the exhibition and wrote the catalogue essays along with Sheila McGuire. Jennifer Bartlett's print Day and Night (1978), a work held by the Sackner Archive, is documented and reproduced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Contains an illustrated essay "A Dreamer of Dreams: Barry Moser" by Dena McDuffie that describes the influence of Leonard Baskin and Gehenna Press on Moser. Contains a list of books that were omitted from the experts' top 100 list. Lee Bioni contributes an in depth biography of James Joyce. Included in the essay are descriptions of Joyc'e published books and documentation of their auction history. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Features the work of Mark Twain. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Contains an illustrated essay and bibliography of Margaret and H.A. Rey who wrote and illustrated the Curious George books and other children's books. In 1923, Rey, then known as Reyersbach, drew bizarre illustrations for a limited deluxe edition of grotesque poems by Christian Morgenstern, an early concrete poet. Rey republished the book in 1973 in English with the same 1923 illustrations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes Sherlock Holmes and the books of Raymond Chandler. Ken Lopez contributes a "Book Collector's Glossary." In it, he explains Galleys, Proofs, Bound Manuscript, Advanced Reading Copy, Advanced Review Copy, Signature, Trade Edition, TLS, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.