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The full title of this print, a quote from Rabbi Hanina Ben Tradyon, is "The Parchment is Burning but the Letters are Flying Free." It depicts Hebrew letters arranged randomly above a collaged, burnt surface of paper at the bottom of the print. Tradyon was an ancient Talmudic scholar who was executed for his beliefs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Composed on an IBM Selectric typewriter that was originally typed 1966 and now retyped 2013. Cameron comments that this poem was originally typed as a gift for Elizabeth Taylor, when she turned out in support of campaign for Edmund Blunden as Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1966. I was a young Oxford poet favored by the young don Francis Warner at the time, he was, if I recall, the one leading the campaign for Blunden, and introduced me to Elizabeth Taylor at a pub. Pleasant, if hazy, memories. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The second of three of H. Bellaert's "n-books," all of which are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These drawings were made on pages 12 & 5, and pages 28 & 21 of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings and marginalia that Macia has incorporated into his new images. Macia related that he was inspired to make these drawings after visiting the Sackner Archive and viewing Tom Phillips' A Humument. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These drawings were made on pages 68 & 89, and pages 112 & 15?] of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings and marginalia that Macia has incorporated into his new images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These drawings were made on pages 32 & 17, and pages 42 & 39 of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings and marginalia that Macia has incorporated into his new images. The relief elements were cut from other pages in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These drawings were made on pages 110 & 99, and pages 70 & 75 of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The main image in the upper drawing is a spider; Macia has created its web by repetitive writing of a poem by e.e. cummings, when skies are, in an almost micrographic style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These drawings were made on pages 46 & 35, and pages 54[?] & 61 of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings and marginalia that Macia has incorporated into his new images. The upper drawing depicts Macia's conception of the Tower of Babel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These drawings were made on pages 12 & 5, and pages 28 & 21 of a book on an astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings and marginalia that Macia has incorporated into his new images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This drawing was made on pages 151 & 152 as well as a page near the title page of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were hidden by mounting them to a sheet of gold leaf. The title page with three adjacent pages within the two pages have termite holes not concealed with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings that Macia has incorporated into his new image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These drawings were made on pages 152 & 153 and the title and preface pages of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Spaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings and marginalia that Macia has incorporated into his new images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This drawing was made on pages 192 & 177 of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings that Macia has incorporated into a new image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the unbound pages, Tipping provides background notes for each of the concrete poetic prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a copy of Drucker's catalogue essay for the exhibition "Symbols to Stories" at the Centre Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College from the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This drawing was submitted to pete spence for publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The first five pages feature a large heavy black printed "T" surrounded by or incorporated with letters or parts of words printed in black. The large letter completes the word. This is followed by pages that use one large black printed letter on subsequent pages to spell out the title of the book. In turn, these letters are surrounded by or incorporate letters or words printed in black or red ink. The smaller black letters have varied typefaces and dimensions while the red letters are printed with the same uppercase typeface. The typography is a modern day version of the style used by Ilia Zdanevich when in lived in Tiflis, Russia in the teens and twenties. In his books of that time, he printed two letters in a vertical row adjacent to one larger letter repetitively to indicate multiple words. Drucker has written a biography on Iliazd as Zdanevich was known when he migrated to Paris and appears to have been influenced by this distinctive typography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin...