The portfolio was designed by Novak & Chatrny. Valoch provided the introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Translated from the French into English by Jean Chopin. The colored froissage in the Archive for this edition is rendered in b&w on the back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Translated from the French into English by Jean Chopin. Wkiipedia: Froissage is a method of collage developed by Czech artist Ladislav Novak in which the lines made by crumpling up a piece of paper are used to create a drawing. One major exponent of the art of froissage was Jirí Kolar. He acquired a reputation as one of the most inventive 20th-century Czech artists. A member of Group 42 and the first Czech Group of Experimental Poetry, he assisted in the development of the collage techniques of froissage and confrontage. During that time, writing poems and crumpling up pieces of paper were considered subversive activities and were discouraged by the then-powerful Communist regime. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Translated from the French into English by Jean Chopin. The colored froissage in the Archive for this edition is rendered in b&w on the back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The exhibition at Cornell University consisted of selections from the Jan amd Meda Mladek Collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bob Cobbing has made notations for the actual performance times on Swedish radio on this personal copy. He notes that Valoch's contribution was not received in time for the festival. This copy is stored with Cobbing material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Novak provides the text of the sound poem recording that will be played at the 1970 exhibition of sound & concrete poetry in Amsterdam. The poem is based upon variations of the sentence, "I am speaking and therefore I am." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Valoch requests loan of Furnival's Pisa/Tower, Eiffel Tower, and two quadrats for an exhibition in Brno, Czeckoslovakia. He furnishes two small ink drawings to indicate the quadrats he wants sent to him. He mentions that he has written an article about Furnival's poster-poems in a Czech periodical, svetova literatura. He encloses new poems and two small prints to Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Jindrich Chalupecky contributed an introductory essay entitled "The Heretical Surrealism of Ladislav Novak." Novak describes his first meeting with Jiri Kolar in 1961 as one of the greatest experiences of his life. Kolar gave him "the kind of stimulus needed and the knowledge that in art one must be ruthless and thorough, that even the most brilliant idea isn't enough in itself, that one must develop it in series, push it, advertise it, etc." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Amazon.com: combination of poetry, prose, and graphic art from a Czech Surrealist who once painted the surface of a frozen lake. The twelve full-color pictures that form the book's central motif are from a 1976 Danish calendar and executed by froissage, a particular method invented by Novak of interpreting the lines formed by crumpling TC. The text to the art was written overnight in the spirit of automatism, and, again sixteen years later. The volume also includes poems from Novak's alter ego, Mr. Hadliz, as well as a conversation between the author and his subject. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.