The cover photographic image was taken by Alan Horvath. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Sarah Schmerler writes about this exhibition, "Martin Wilner's series "Making History" (monthly calendar drawings started in 2002) combines disparate, often disturbing images lifted from current events - George Bush's distorted face, men in surgical masks - with snippets of ephemera like sheet music, making visual sense of a world gone chaotically awry...it's the raw and honest approach to drawing shared by Gabel and Wilner that mades the ferry trip worthwhile." The Sackner Archive holds three of the monthly calendar drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The exhibition, which also travelled to the ICA at the University of Pennsylvania, consisted of early drawings by Smith in which she "struggles to transform the written language itself, creating unforeseen permutations -an alchemy of word and gesture." The second part of the catalogue contains drawings related to September 11, the Tower of Babel and the works of Rimbaud, William Blake and Antonin Artaud. There are several shaped, calligraphic poems in the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem printed in red below the blue title reads, "Strathclyde Region is no More." This poem relates to the battle between Finlay and the Strathclyde Region taxation office. It is based upon a statement made during the French Revolution. "Lyons made war on Liberty/Lyons is no more/18th day of the first month of the Year Two/of the French Republic, One and Indivisible." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The texts used in this book were written by Margaret Atwood, Nick Hornby, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others. Stored with Archetype Press material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The six inscribed fragments concerning the French Revolution 1789-1805 were composed by Finlay and carved by Stirling in Portland stone. The exhibition was curated by Finlay and Simig. The commentary was written by Siegfried Blasche. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This print deals mainly with worldwide environmental issues through handwritten texts, e.g., West: overconsumption of protein--3W protein drain, To preserve the earth for all, People pay for the cost of eliminating pollution. This print was part of nine other prints by Fahlstom that were published by multipla editions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem in its first stanza reads, "Where the eagles circle in the darkness, the sons of the alps cross from precipace to precipace, fearlessly, on the flimsiest rope of bridges." The second stanza reads, "In the Place de la Revolution the man made mountain torrent clatters and clatters." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover design by Barb O'Connelly was made from a mimeo-stencil cut with a can opener. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Cover photos by Mark Kaufman. Second zero edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

J.R. Norton contributed a forward. The Sackners heard the lecture delivered by Wright at relating to this book at the Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach in October 2006. The political posters in this book were altered from 50 old classic war propoganda posters using PhotoShop. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The author indicated that the "book" is a translucent envelope containing six "certificates" with texts addressing: Surveillance & Knowledge, Surveillance & Purity, Surveillance & Reciprocity, Surveillance & Glamour, and Surveillance & Absurdity. In between the certificates are the SurVeils - masks of onionskin paper with different life-sized images of closed eyes with little eye-holes: To hide your open eyes and aid in "surveilling your surveillors." To reinforce the deception, at the bottom of each veil is rubberstamped "my eyes are closed." Adhesive dots can be attached to the eyes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The recto of this painted book object has the aphorism "God Saves" whereas the verso has the printed admonishment, "Wear Under Jacket, Left Pocket." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Two of each of the pencils are stamped on the side panels with the following: YOU ARE TRAPPED ON THE EARTH SO YOU WILL EXPLODE; WHAT URGE WILL SAVE US NOW THAT SEX WON'T?; PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT; MEN DON'T PROTECT YOU ANYMORE; THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR WILL BE SECRET; THE FUTURE IS STUPID. This series predates the edition published by the Albright-Knox Gallery Buffalo in 1991 in which the stampings were done in black ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The subtitle of the book is Late in a Prophetic Tradition with the Poetry of Susan Howe and John Taggart. The author examines the religious qualities of the poems by these writers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.