The black stencilled letters cover the top 2/3 of the drawing, A finger on a hand drawn at the bottom of the panel points to the word LOVE stamped in energy waves. "For June" is stencilled at the bottom. The background colors are red, gold and beige. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Beat Movement,which started in the 1940's with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, also included other avant garde poets, writers, filmmakers and visual artists on the East and West coasts.This book served as the catalogue for an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art which was curated by Lisa Phillips. It contains nine essays by art, film and cultural historians, a detailed chronology of the Beat mmovement and a bibliography, Contributors include Lisa Phillips, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Sanders and Rebecca Solnit. It is heavily documented with photographs of the group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This star-like image, composed of several seemingly disjointed phrases, includes "Post pnemonia sputum from ridiculous to lime." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Several of the love poems in this suite deal with Herms' wife at the time. One of the picture/poems has a mesostic that spells Louise, her name. The typography utilized for the poems on these prints is varied. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poetry is typical beat and the typography, with varied typefaces, is influenced by Wallace Berman whom Herms knew at the time this book was published. The celestial images that illustrate the book were those current in the California culture at that time. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A print of an article that was ripped from a California newspaper is centered on a black, circular background and collaged to cardboard. The headline of the article states, "Fire in Cave Imperils Historically Valuable Dung on Extinct Sloth." The letters L - O - V - E are rubberstamped in each corner of the board. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The exhibition was curated by Elena Siff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Catalogue of the exhibition at the gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, September - November 1992; includes 23 separate objects (2 booklets, 2 folios, 5 leaves, 1 folded sheet, 10 color postcards, 1 accordion-folded sheet and 1 poster). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

George Herms was an important artist is the California assemblage movement of the 1960's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The complete text that reads, "When I go - I'm taking nationalism - and the internal combustion - engine with me" is printed in red over the image of crushed, stained and pierced paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.