Ringgold drew a map of the United States and wrote acts of violence that occurred in America's history by the name of the event and the number of dead and wounded. Her signature appears in the lower right corner; another copy of this poster was seen at ACA Gallery in 2006 without the signature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book deals with the kikking of great auks byhumans on Funk Island. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This depicts 10 line drawn, picture poems printed in red and black, one to a page that involve a war theme. A complete reprinting of this book appeared as a section of the catalog for Finlay's exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery (1977). Unable to locate an entry for this book, which was printed by the Stellar Press, in the Finlay bibliographies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

There is no reference made to this book in the various Finlay bibliographies but the the same images printed on identical paper are bound into the exhibition catalog, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Serpentine Gallery, London, 1977, a book also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

d.a.levy's poem in this anthology, "the bells of the Cherokee ponies," deals with the injustices suffered by the American Indians. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Stephan Bann provides an explanation of the poem in the accompanying leaflet as follows. Thermidor was the month in the French Revolutionary calendar when the summer heat was its most intense, and the grain at its ripest. It was also the month, in 1794, when Robespierre and his followers met their deaths at the guillotine. In the image of this poem, the abrupt cleavage of the word, THER MIDOR, and of the figured sheaf of flowers, suggest the termination of the revolution in its Jacobian sense. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Thermodor indicates a name of the month during the French Republican calendar. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each poem consists of a drawing by Laurie Clark and a caption by Finlay dealing with the Republican calendar (France 1793-1805) during the first week of the revolution in 1794 in which the Robespierrists were executed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title statement, translated into three languages, appears on a photograph of a video monitor in capital letters with Jochen Gerz's name on the bottom. The translucent overlay has handwritten instructions for reproduction of this image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This card was mailed to the Sackners by Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem deals with the responsibilities that are associated with firing a missile with a nuclear warhead. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

On the back cover, it is stated that he was born in 1941. Filmmaker (about 100 films for German TV), co-founder of Visual Poetry in Germany (since 1970 intern. Exhibitions & publications). Dencker did in 1972 the first TV-film (ARD/HR) and the first German anthology (Textbilder-Visuelle Poesie international. Cologne) about Visual Poetry. Dencker-Archive at the Art-Library Berlin (about 700 works & 500 books). Dencker-monograph with biography, bibliography & works: Klaus Peter Dencker, Visuelle Poesie 1965-2005. Weitra(A) 2006. Monograph about Visual Poetry: Klaus Peter Dencker, Optical Poetry. From early pictorial inscriptions to present day digital experiments. Berlin/New York, Oktober 2010. His works are in many international museums. Art-Prizes: 1972 (Erlangen), 1982 (Berlin) a. o. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.