The title translate from German to English as "square." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The print depicts an image of a sheep and lamb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image on the cover of the card is a dull red colored print of stacked fishing boxes with three added fishing boat numbers in black typeface adapted from a painting by Ben Nicholson entitled, "Brown with Little Squares." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In the original citation, only the text card was held. The two cards depicting text and images of hearts, respectively were included in "Agentzia 2," another work held by the Sackner Archive. The image card from "Agentzia 2" has been transferred to this location (Finlay box) for storage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This essay and illustrations were presented at the Avant Writing Symposium 2010 at Ohio State University. The Sackners were in attendence at this lecture.Marvin Sackner contributed a "blurb" for this book: Wow! I attended the Avant Writing conference where Nico Vassilakis composed staring@poetics and marvel how he is able to perform the formidable multitasking of writing this long poem and illustrating it with stunningly beautiful, computer generated, visual letter poems as his take on their emotional, visual impact while remaining attentive to the many oral presentations at this conference. But I shouldn't be surprised - I have followed his poetic career for many years and found him to be one of the most challenging, cutting-edge, American poets today. The long poem or the visual poems are each worth the price of the book. This book deserves a place in any library of contemporary poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is about identity. The letter addressed to Pat Collins deals with the submission of this book to one of her projects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover drawing by David Button is a sail boat presumably "stationary" or dead in the water and the print by Ron Costis a ruled blue sheet captioned "stationery." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This card depicts a black and white photograph of a row of architectural books including "Follies a National Trust Guide" by Gwyn Headley and Wim Meulenkamp with a sticker placed on the spine "Censored by the Saint-Just Vigilantes." The authors of this book were critically antagonistic to Finlay's Temple Garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a b&w photograph from Stonypath garden that depicts a carved stone inscribed "See Poussin Hear Lorrain." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This card depicts a carved stone inscribed with Durer's mark set in the Stonypath garden. It is a riff on a famous Albrecht Durer watercolor entitled, "Piece of Lawn." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This booklet is cited in two places because the first author mentioned is Cutts but the booklet is listed in Finlay's bibliography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Finlay plays off a stylized image of a submarine with its conning tower against a plant with a similar structure. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Depicts a sheep peering through a window with the fields in the background; according to a letter from Furnival, this print is a companion to Bright Patches. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The first stanza of the poem that reads "The canoe of life is shattered..." is taken from Mayakovsky's suicide note. The second stanza that reads "The windblown willow's leaves hide the path" is a caption to the drawing of leaves on the cover of the folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.