This page was personally scnned under the direction of Augusto De Campos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

John Sharkey's poetry film event was held in Bristol, England. Houedard writes in his introductory statement, "these texts consist of words and silences--any 2 words phrases or silences are connected directly thru what the film is about -- so the words &c can be taken in ANY ORDER." Houedard also writes in the text "CONCRETE POEMS ARE THINGS / LOOK THRU CLEANFORMS TO POETMIND CONCRETE PEOMS...CONCRETE POEMS CAN BE TOYS OR INSTSRUMENTS...CONCRETE IS AFTERBEAT" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This depicts a square of composed of two words in capital letters THALAMUS & SOL. Houedard has composed several poems using the neurologic structure, Thalamus, as their basis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the same poem in red ink but pubished b&w in Williams' 'Anthology of Concrete Poetry' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The first two lines of the poem reads "worshipped in honour of ousioos (inventor of furcoats) / & samen roumes (inventor of the twiggy hut). The text of the poem accompying the typed image is not understandable owing to words foreign to English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Wayne Clements writes, "These drawings were created in 2002. They formed the core of the manuscripts of a book sent to a Canacian publisher. It was to be the third in a series of visual texts ...Unfortunately, the manuscript was lost and the drawings were never published. In 2013 one of the drawings (Live Your Epitaph) was exhibited in 'Visual Poetics', an exhbition at the Poetry Library, London, curated by David Miller and Chris McCabe. All the drawings use words and phrases from Shakespeare's sonnets." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This page contains the three concrete poems in the title. The third poem is an" homage a leopold sedar senghor." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The spelling of the poet's name in this book is "Shant."Wikipedia: Shaunt Basmajian (30 September 1950 -- 25 January 1990) was a Canadian poet and author. Born in Beirut, Lebanon to Armenian parents, Basmajian emigrated to Canada when he was seven years old. He was a founder of the Canadian Poetry Association, co-founder of Old Nun Publications (with Ted Plantos), and was a member of the Parliament Street Library poetry group. The Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award, given annually to a Canadian poet, was established in his memory. The contest ran from 1996-2008.In 1986, he was attacked with a knife and robbed while he was driving a taxi. His right lung was punctured when a robber stabbed him -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Mahayana typewritings are stored in a custom wooden box made by Molly Burgess whereas Theravada typewritings are stored between two plexiglas book covers. The limited edition book, 'Still,' of 25 copies depcits excellent reproductions of the originals to the extent that it is difficult to distinguish the original from the letterpress reproductions. However, the originals are typed on a single page whereas the reproductions in the book are printed on sleeve pages. A comparison between the blackness of the lettering generally showed more blackness with the originals than the reproductions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.