The collage on the recto was made by John Held, Jr. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The word "THIS" has been cut out of the entire book including the covers with a jigsaw. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. The upper half of this picture depicts a tube-like structure connected to a larger semi-circular one, presumably a highly stylized representation of the lungs. White squiggley lines on a black ground within the latter give an appearance of oceanic tides, thereby providing a metaphor for the title of this work, i.e. Tidal Breathing. The lower half of the picture contains untranslatable hieroglyphics by Ely, his charactistic gestural marks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Barbera was a student in the New World School of the Arts in Miami and was inspired to make this collage when she saw the exhibition "Visual Hothouse" in the Centre Gallery MDCC, that was on loan from the Sackner collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This handmade book was published to commemorate the 100th birthday of the poet, David Burliuk, "spiritual rebel and Russian futurist". The verses of Burliuk were collected by Constantin Kuzminsky, Gerald Janecek and Lev Nussberg. The book is divided into two parts: the first half consists of 90 collaged pages, of varying colored papers with Russian Poetry. The second half consists of Burliuk's poetry translated into English, replete with colored pencil drawings over the poetic texts. Several drawings refer to images in the Russian avant garde literatures e.g., a red diamond (Burliuk was a founder of the literary movement Jack of Diamonds), a constructivist coffin (of Malevich ?), a red devil much like the image on the cover of Trou. The poems and illustrations preponderantly deal with the female breast, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Pages of the book are sealed together. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Contains reproduction of "La Cote Quest," a painting which is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this book, Cobbing describes his journey from Kyoto to Tokyo using maps, schedules, and poetry to trace the route. Allen Ginsburg's poem "The Change (Kyoto to Tokyo Express)" is also included. This copy is the first edition, the second edition also held by the Sackner Archive was published in 1981 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this book, Cobbing describes his journey from Kyoto to Tokyo using maps, schedules, and poetry to trace the route. Allen Ginsburg's poem "The Change (Kyoto to Tokyo Express)" is also included. This copy is the second edition, the first edition also held by the Sackner Archive was published in 1975 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work includes mocked-up pages for the book along with background material. In this book, Cobbing describes his journey from Kyoto to Tokyo using maps, schedules, and poetry to trace the route. Allen Ginsburg's poem "The Change (Kyoto to Tokyo Express)" is also included. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this book, Cobbing describes his journey from Kyoto to Tokyo using maps, schedules, and poetry to trace the route. Allen Ginsburg's poem "The Change (Kyoto to Tokyo Express)" is also included. This copy is the first edition, the second edition also held by the Sackner Archive was published in 1981 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.