This is a catalogue for the first major collection purchased by the Sackners in the formative stages of their Archive. Hoffberg was representing Richard Aaron, the bookdealer who owned this collection. Hoffberg had offered the collection to Jean Brown who did not buy it but referred the Sackners as potential buyers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem in the book with the same title has to do with the emotion one might feel after descending from the barrenness of a mountain to encounter the flowers and green appearance of a valley. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the second edition of number 3 in the Writers Forum 'Fives' series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is number 3 in the Writers Forum 'Fives' series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is number 3 in the Writers Forum 'Fives' series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The photograph shows several sculptured letter O's balanced on M's. The title, bean structure, references the Hindu word "om" intoned during meditation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackner Archive has two signed copies of this book, one in a series of 25 as in this copy and the other out of series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poet's first book. Conventional poems are surrounded by constructivist images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover was designed by Bob Cobbing. Although Finch titled his poems as Haiku, they are, for the most part, poems distorted by the photocopying process on a background of dense abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is Finch's homage to Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.