A worn binding of Plato's book, "Republic The Statesman" was remade as a container for an assemblage of booklets, scrolls, wooden rods, gauze and ancient printed texts. The lid of the box contains an inset, ornate magnifying glass through which a portion of the interior box can be viewed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each of the pages depicts a reproduction of a handwritten visual poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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.

Central image is a portrait of Charles De Gaulle flanked by word columns utilizing the repetitive typed word, bouffe (comic), and merde in a fragmented fashion near the portrait. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Curated by Luciano Caruso and Sonia Puccetti. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Edited by Luciano Caruso and Sonia Puccetti. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This drawing was commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. The poet drew circular shapes with symmetrical and irregular borders encapsulating the words, "breath, breathing, and respiro," as an attempt to portray the physical qualities of a breath as a visual image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. The background of this work is rubberstamped multiple times, "In Out," and found printed texts and images are collaged onto the rubberstamping. The collage is enclosed by a plastic laminate. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The top half of this print is a photograph of a bridge over a body of water. The bottom half is the same scene rendered in the repeated words brisa (breeze), abatido (downcast), abismo (abyss), abajo (under), barato (cheap), alejar (move away) - themes related to suicide. The calligraphic text is rendered by computer typeface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The print depicts a stylized broken arm with a fractured Swatstika arm band with the hand aflame. The smoke from the fire consists of a political address in 1993 set in bold type by Helmut Kohl, the leader of Germany dealing with solving the world's problems with money. This overlays a text with fainter type dealing with protection of the environment. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work consists of single words pinned to a masonite surface. The words are in the German language that when translated to English consist of autumn, to feel, today, to see, children, to live, a little, and quicker, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Laura Lopez Fernandez wrote the introduction to this catalogue. She visited the Sackner Archive in December 2002. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem object consists of six cloth breathing masks onto which is painted "HELP!" in individual letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.