Abraxas is the name applied by ancient gnostic sects to the Supreme Being, who was, collectively, all the spirits of the earth. The magical "abracadabra" was derived from Abraxas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Six artists transformed an apartment in a Toronto High rise building in a sequence of exhibitions. This catalogue documents the space. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work is labeed '2' in this four poem sequence. The title is a nonsense word. Weiner died in 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Although published in 1991, several of the poems and essays in this issue have terrorist, Gulf war and suppression of civil liberties in Latin America themes that seem timely to the terrorist assult on the World Trade Center in NYC that happened (September 11, 2001) as this periodical is now being catalogued. In addition, Scott Montgomery contributed an insightful essay, "On the Banning of 'The Satanic Verses': Thoughts on the Politics of the Book." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

These poems are based upon naval light and flag signaling using the "International Code of Signals (British 1899) ." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work is labeed '3' in this four poem sequence. The title is a nonsense word. Weiner died in 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work is labeed '4' in this four poem sequence. The title is a nonsense word. Weiner died in 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Edited by Kirby Malone and Marshall Reese. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cabinet (artist box) was designed by Mark Foxman, the cover was designed by by David Horton and the typography was designed by Susan Quasha. The works are mostly photographic, non-verbal images. The editor, David Lee Strauss, on an interview, discusses how he wanted this issue to be concerned with the fourth dimension. However, except for Robert Bowen's photograph, "Flat Irony," a surrealistic image of the NYC Flat Iron Building floating in space Mark Jenkinson's night photograph of a Los Vegas scene, I did not find the rest of the contributions successful in this regard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The card depicts Morse code symbols of dots and dashes. This card is stored with other cards published by Hard Press. The symbols were used for stage directions in Weiner's play "RJ" included in "The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater 1945-1985" that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The card is addressed to Bernadette Walsh aka Bernadette Mayer who heads The Poetry Project in NYC. Weiner has written on each ruled page of this student style notebook a series of promises some of which can be read in a straight foward fashion, others omitting articles, verbs and nouns, and still others an incorrect tense to the verbs. These errors increase progressively over the course of this book which begins, "I promise to write readible and coherent letters. I promise to write a filthy book." Further, the sizes of the writing are also instructions for printed layout. Finally, scatteed throughout the book is the phrase Big Word, another instruction. During the period of writing this book (one of several hundred in this style), Weiner became a pyschotic recluse living in Manhattan. She emerged from this state about 1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue deals with concrete and visual poetry as well as experimental fiction. Notable contributions include concrete poems by Raymond Federman and Keith Robertson. The pamphlet by John M. Bennett is entitled "Image Standards." The covers depict concrete poems by Richard Kostelanetz. The folded poster is an uncut single sheet for Kostelanetz's booklet, "Modulations." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The recording consists of an interview between Charles Bernstein, and, Weiner and Scalipino who also did a reading. Stored in box containing tape cassette periodicals of Linebreak, Recorthings and Tellus. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Catalog lists writers from Gadd to Gysin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.