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This book includes 20 poems from "154 Forties," a series that Mac Low has been writing and revising since 1990. The cover was designed by Anne Tardos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems in this book were composed by chance operations through a chart made up of words denoting of all kinds of light. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems in this book were composed by chance operations through a chart made up of words denoting of all kinds of light. The chart is at the end of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In his introduction, Rothenberg describes his preliminary work organizing this book and visualized it as "an image in this instance of some supreme yiddish surrealistic vaudevillle" he could set into motion. Rothenberg adds a commentary section to each of the poems and provides a section on its source. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In his introduction, Rothenberg describes his preliminary work organizing this book and visualized it as "an image in this instance of some supreme yiddish surrealistic vaudevillle" he could set into motion. Rothenberg adds a commentary section to each of the poems and provides a section on its source. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Iris Lezak designed the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents An Epigram is a brief, clever, and usually memorable statement. Derived from the Greek: "to write on - inscribe"[1], the literary device has been employed for over two millennia. The Greek tradition of epigrams began as poems inscribed on votive offerings at sanctuaries "” including statues of athletes "” and on funerary monuments, for example "Go tell it to the Spartans, passer-by"¦". These original epigrams did the same job as a short prose text might have done, but in verse. Epigram became a literary genre in the Hellenistic period, probably developing out of scholarly collections of inscriptional epigrams. Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between 'epigram' and 'elegy' is sometimes indistinct (they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise. Many of the...

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A poem is pringed on each page with six stanzas with the first letter of each phrase reading WI EIS HIIC Y S&T HNII. At the bottom of each page is a reproduction of a telephone drawn by Ray Johnson, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Iris Lezak was Mac Low's lover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Introduction by Jackson MacLow, cover design by Paul Woodbine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.