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The definitions are taken from quotations in the classic literature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Depicts seven flattened paper, seed packets with identical images om one side, a watering can and flowers; the name of seven leaders of the French revolution is a metaphor for the seeds, e.g., Robespierre, Saint-Just, Couthin, etc. On the other side of the packet, a tri-color ribbon is attached to the middle of a tombstone. These packets have outlines to allow cutting and folding to form a three dimensional seed packet. They are a metaphor to the events of the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Brownjohn was an American graphic designer who emigrated to London in the 1960's. "The design profession doesn't produce many larger-than-life figures. Robert Brownjohn-BJ, to just about everyone who knew him, and everyone did-was one. His gifts were immense, as were his appetites. Enfant terrible and visionary, he was both. Mick and the Stones wanted to hang with him. Of course it couldn't last. Robert Brownjohn was simply too big for this world. He died in 1970 at the age of 45, a victim of his own excesses. Today, he is best remembered for his sexy James Bond credit sequences. But Brownjohn's legacy is far more significant, and his story has all the drama and pathos of a Hollywood blockbuster. Now, for the first time, this extraordinary life and career is remembered in print, with all its richness and complexity. Robert Brownjohn: Sex and Typography tracks the story of this legend from his early years as the prized student of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy to his days as a visionary star in...

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At Finlay's Serpentine exhibition (1977) in which Bernini's "Apollo and Daphne" was shown, the Nazi SS organization was equated with nature. It signified the ultimate 'wildness' on a scale whose other 'cultivated' extreme was the 18th century. This book traces the progression (or descent) from the civilized script of this period in which 'f's were customerly substituted for 's's - to the double lightening stroke emblem of the SS; a gradation between 'Culture' and 'Nature.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The back cover of the card reads, "Valentine." The flower at the beginning of each phrase of the poem is depicted in its recto view. A card with the same layout with the title "he loves her" is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text (title) lists instructions for a Christmas play. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The titles are printed on gray and green colored cards that relate to these minimalist poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A poster that exhorts Finlay friends to help in his despute with the regional tax collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ian Hamilton Finlay contributed a conventional poem entitled "Orkney Interior." Michel Butor wrote an essay on Baudelaire. An excerpt from "Kadish" by Allen Ginsberg is printed in this issue. Charles Olson contributed a poem with concrete poetic elements, Edwin Morgan wrote an essay on "Jean Genet: A Life and its Legend." "Naked Lunch" by William Burroughs was reviewed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The two facing pages of this book depicts silhouettes of four sailing and war ships with captions on the left side and two battle ships along with two imagined ships on the right side. The later consist of an astronaut's view of the earth entitled, "Astronaut's Flattop - earth, and a flower with two leaves in a pond entitled, L'envoi: Queen of the floating pond - Lys. The last page of the boat provides explanations for the captions of the poems. The Sackner Archive also holds the Archive for this work including another copy of the book as well as the ink drawings for it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem extolls the usefulness of a luggage tag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem extolls the usefulness of a luggage tag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The set contains one well-known concrete poem printed on a card of varied colored stock by each contributor. The loose sheet is a manifesto by Gomringer entitled "from line to constellation" which was first printed in Augenblick No.2. It has been translated into English by Mike Weaver. The set was presumably sold at the Brighton poetry festival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Five prints were adapted by Hinks from drawings by Claude Lorrain (1640, 1642, 1643, 1649). The texts of the tree plaques for this proposal were taken from classical sources in Latin and Greek literature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The columns are inscribed with the name of six persons prominent in the French revolution and they are coupled in pairs because of a relationship. They include LeBas & Saint-Just, Camille (Desmoulins), a revolutionary journalist & Lucille, his wife, and Marat & Charlotte (Corday) his assassin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.