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This first novel by Michael McClure is a murder mystery about a cocaine dealer-- "The scene moves back and forth from Greenwich Village, to the Arizona desert in this phantasmagorial adventure story of cocaine and murder. Time shifts and coheres as in the new cinema and reflects the post-psychedelic generation. This is the story of a 24-hour trip. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawings depict visual interpretations of classic music compositions and operas. Each ink drawing also includes a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. The drawings on pages 11, 15, 22, and 23 have been individually matted by the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Consists of a collection of critical essays previously published in academic periodicals. Her chapter, "Edging and Hedging" analyzes concrete poems by Lora-Totino (Spazio), Ulrichs (Eros), Gomringer (Silenzio), and Finlay ( The Wartime Garden). Caws analyzes the varient works of concrete poetry by the Frenchmen Lionel Ray and Edmond Jabes that she designates optical poetry as related to reading of the poems not to their optical imagery as in the typings of Dom Sylvester Houedard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This family portrait was photographed by Duane Michals and titled "The Bus Stop" for the story without words told by the eight photos he selected from the many he took in front of a white New York building. As the Sacker family enters in chronological order and waits for the arrival of a bus, they appear as total strangers to each other with no communication among them. The bus arrives, they get on and it remains a mystery whether they ever made contact with each other. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Wikipedia: "A colander is a type of sieve used in cooking for separating liquids and solids. It is much like a strainer. It is conventionally made of a light metal, such as aluminium or thinly rolled stainless steel, although it is not uncommon for it to be made of plastic. A colander is pierced with a pattern of small holes for the liquid to drain through, but allowing the solids to remain inside the sieve itself. Colanders often take the form of a large bowl with a built-in stand to allow water to drain out the bottom as well as the sides." Vassilakis draws loosely upon this definition to create a surrealistic poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There is a reproduction of a black and white collage featuring a female figure on each page of this book with a style reminiscent of the paste-ups of Jess. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Eric v.d. Luft contributed the introduction, commentary, staging and book design in addition to the translation. Stored in Houedard box for comparison to dsh's translation [held in houedard binder]. Luft like Houedard has taken a great deal of literary license with Tzara' farciful Dada play. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Each issue within the box covers varying engagements with surrealism through drawings and text. Some topics depicted are floral forms (#4), cartoons (#5), hell (#6), pessimism (#7), humor (#7), nightmares (#9), fragmentation (#10)This issue consists of surrealistic drawings and text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This issue consists of surrealistic drawings that resemble paint by number drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This issue consists of surrealistic drawings by Fiona Smyth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This issue consists of surrealistic drawings of floral forms by Julie Voyce. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This issue consists of cartoon-like surrealistic drawings by Ben b. Jacques. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This issue consists of a lively tale of things the author imagines he will have or not have in hell. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This...

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Zurn was the companion of Hans Bellmer; she suffered from mental illness the last 13 years of her life. The book was written in 1958 after she developed a case of jaundice. Contains 18 surrealistic, calligraphic drawings related to the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Jackman writes at the bottom of the box, "From the old, rare, curious one of a kind foreign unfit to read, non archival book collection." Seven varying shaped collage assemblages are stacked in the richly collaged box which has a lid with a handle made from a carved and embellished pencil. The scrolls consist of hand printed poems on the recto and drawings on the verso. These also include pseudo-Chinese ideograms. As usual, a tour de force by Jackman! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There are three major poems opening each section of this book of poetry, each of which relates to cigarette smoking. The first, "Descending the Lung," reads "Hand over hand, we inch. Our grips are fine hairs, moving in their tides. We sink from rung landscape, arcing to the edges of the body. Looking over shoulders we can see it: lung, translucent mine, its dim. We cannot move our feet for the mire the smoke mahes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Andrea Dezso takes the leitmotif of her life - an artist caught between civilizations - and gives it to us in crafted form. The entire body of her work, from the drawings and fragments of her journal, to the cut-out silhouettes, to the ceramic figures, to the needlepoint and kitchenware, is the material for a gigantic story: part fairytale, part diary, part chapter of world history. The total picture is so sad, magical, melancholy and hilarious that it couldn't possibly be true. but it is. Morgan Meis contributes a descriptive essay of Dezso's life and work. The Sackner Archive is listed as holding her pieces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Provides an extensive analysis of Magritte's painting, This Is Not a Pipe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.