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 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 image of this card includes "A Humument" imagery. The poem reads "only staring at portions of the park." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Peter Finch introduces his collected works by tracing those poets who influenced him. He writes that "concrete poetry does not use language for the recollection of emotion in tranquility but as the material of the poem itself." The book includes a poem, "Breath (after Philip Glass)," which repetitively utilizes the phrases, "the breath came and the breath went," as an incessant background rhythm for the main text in an analogous way that Philip Glass presents his music compositions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Trade edition of this print, which is also held by the Sackner Archive, was published by Writers Forum (Bob Cobbing). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.