This depicts an armored tank among Silver Birch trees. It contrasts with the first version in that the first had tree leaves immeshed in the netting over the tank. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Betula Pendula refers to Silver Birch. The image of this drawing is the outline of an armored tank camouflaged by netting covered with tree leaves. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Betula Pendula refers to Silver Birch. The image on this card is an armored tank camouflaged by netting covered with tree leaves. A sketch of this image is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Little Sparta, the garden in Scotland by Ian Hamilton Finlay, is described and illustrated in the chapter titled, "Poetry in Nature Unredeemed." The chapter also includes an interview of Finlay. A chapter features the work of Dieter Kiensast who utilizes concrete poetic structures in his landscape architecture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The duplicate copy of this record also has the mimeographed pages written by Houedard. The manuscript of the Houedard piece is held by the Sackner Archive and the three copies are stored in three locations . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The words, Beautiful Kydippe, incised into a tree-bark by Callimachus (270 B.C.) are transcribed into a stone plaque (print image) shaped to the trunk of a tree. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem on the French tricolor flag reads, "Liberty for Some; Equality for Some; Fraternity for Some" rather than "for All." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Image depicts the French Tricolored Flag with inscription, Liberty for some, Equality for some, and Fraternity with some. This epithat refers to the rejection of Finlay's commission by the city of Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The photograph on this card was made by Diane Tammes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image of this card is a black and white photograph of two toy sail boats on a pond; the caption emphasizes their main masts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each card is printed on different colored stock with the same aphorism, All art constantly aspires towards the condition of birdsong (recto) in a variety of colours (verso). This is a quote from John Bevis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This card depicts drawings small wooden parts of a ship. "Bitts" in the title means a strong post of wood or iron, usually projecting in pairs, above the deck of a ship, used for securing cables, lines for towing, etc. The word "BITTS" in capitals implies strength but the parts are small, hence "bits." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this book of previously published brief essays and interviews, Jonathan Williams describes his publishing in Jargon as follows: "Most of the people we've published despise ninety-five percent of the others we've done - that's probably a very healthy thing. Remember, you're dealing with a hillbilly oligarch, a crank. Whether it's poetry of photography or visionary fold-art or persons themselves, I love things that are 'bright-eyed, non-uppity, autochthonous, wacko, private, isolate, unconventional, unpaved, non-commercial, non-nice, naive, outside, fantastic, sub-aesthetic, home-style and bushy-tailed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The individuals named in the title fought Finlay's commission for a public work in Paris on the grounds that he was (falsely) anti-semitic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text was written by Adrian Harding on the occasion of an exhibition by Sarkis and Finlay entitled "Little Sparta & Kriegsschatz." The essay by Harding is a poetic vision of his impressions of Finlay's and Sarkis' houses and gardens. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The print depicts stems with leaves on a blue background of water(?). The significance of this image is not readily discerned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.