This is a scholarly work which analyzes the artist book in several contexts including the book as idea and form, early 20th century avant-garde books, the codex, the book as a visual form, books as verbal exploration, and the book as document. The Sackner Arcvhive is mentioned in a footnote and as a major source of Johanna Druckers collected works. Drucker provides classification of artist books through headings and examples throughout this book but omits listing them in a tabular form for easy access. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The soft cover book has a smaller book bound into the back cover. The book and tape are housed in an envelope which is attached to and folded into the poster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Book was performed/made in a copy shop by Elizabeth Was and Heidi Sheppard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Text has been enlarged several times its orignal size by repeated passages through Xerox machine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a slightly larger version of the book published originally by Xexoxial Editions in 1987. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The first five cards provide documentation of this project that deal with line drawings of "Wakest" creatures on the recto with a two word caption on the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover art was done by Jake Berry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Geof Huth has contributed a forward titled "onewordworld" in which he writes, "To make a poem within the limits of a single word. That is the project. That is the entire project of pwoermds. To eschew grammar. To isolate words from the running water of sentence, To focus attention. To be a wordist more than a writer, To be a wreader more than a reader." pwoermd is definned "n. A single word presented as a poem adn unadorned with a title." [poem + word (w the letters rom each word alternated to produce the neologism)]"This book is dedicated for Bob Grumman (1941-2015). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Pages of the book are sealed together. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The bookbinding makes this work unique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The bookbinding makes this work unique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The bookbinding and the handcolored additions makes this work unique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This assembling was produced by compiling the "favorite visual poems" by the invited contributors. Each poem is accompanied by the poet's own explanations of the works on a facing page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.