The title is the address of the office building in New York City from which Lax observed the cityscape that inspired these poems. A vertical format to the poems layout is seen in these early poems (c.1958) which becomes more fully developed in his later sparer, more meditative poems. The illustrations were drawn by Steve Fairnie. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue mainly consists of an extensive bibliography of Lax's work. The title of the exhibition, "Abstrakte Poesie" does not appear in the catalogue, only in the contemporaneous exhibition announcement. The back cover reproduces a letter from Ad Reinhardt to Robert Lax. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The inside cover of the folder depicts a photograph of a woman in a flapper dress and the back cover contains a typical Lax poem. Edited by David Kilburn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Pages depict a black circle with overleaf captions, black hole, full stop, dark circle, all with the same circular image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.