Mottram discusses the career of Bob Cobbing from his first sound poetry performance at the ICA London in 1965, his organization of writers and poets beyond the traditional literary boundaries, and his relationship to the avant garde poets, musicians and theorists of the 1960's and 1970's. The panels "Spontaneous appealinair contemprate apollinare" that are depicted in this pamphlet are held by the Sackner Archive.This piece is reprinted from Second Aeon magazine No.16-17, 1973 and is also Designated Studies in Concrete Poetry No.1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Edited by Allen De Loach. Photograph of Eric Mottram by Jennifer Cobbing. This book is one of the 1125 of a total print run of 3500 bound in cloth. Mottram minutely examines Burroughs' life and major works, stating in Chapter 1 that Burroughs is "...a radical satirist whose indignation and disgust reach through the crust of the power games of the world into the aggressive areas of the obscene....expos[ing] the -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.