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.

The handwritten page in this limited edition is a manuscript page. The folded sheet is an announcement for a reading. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Wikepedia: Fred Arthur Nettelbeck (November 9, 1950 "“ January 20, 2010) was an American poet. In the early 1970s he began work on a long poem that was published in 1979: Bug Death. Bug Death was created using cut-up and collage texts combined with original writing. His literary magazine, This Is Important (1980"“1997), published such writers as William S. Burroughs, Wanda Coleman, John M. Bennett, Jack Micheline, Allen Ginsberg, Robin Holcomb, Charles Bernstein, John Giorno, etc. His other publication of note was a Small press mimeo magazine: Throb (1971), publishing Al Masarik, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Gerald Locklin, Joel Deutsch, and 'Charles Bukowski answers 10 easy questions'. Nettelbeck's work, publications, and papers are collected in the Ohio State University Avant Writing Collection and the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

On final page, Nettelbeck has written in graphite that this work has been copywrited by Rough Life Press, Los Angeles in 1975 and by Horsehead Nebula Press in 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Edited by Bob Heman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Also designated one cent #191. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Also designated one cent #146. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This archive recounts the background for the writing and publishing of Nettelbeck's long poem, "Destroy All Monsters." The book was published by Konglomerati Press, Gulfport, FL, owned by Richard Mathews and Barbara Russ. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.