Kostelanetz defines 'Text-sound' to mean "language unspecific in pitch, which coheres in terms of sound, rather than syntex or semantics." This book consists of scores, manifestos, self-interviews, scripts, performance instructions, critical essays, and theoretical remarks. In Walter Abish's three page story, "Auctioning Australia," all the words begin with the letter 'a.' Kenneth King's "Word Raid" consists of seven pages of tongue twisters. The cover depicts a sound poem by Bliem Kern. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

O'Gallagher prints a hilarious spoof of an interview of Andy Warhol in concrete poetry that is depicted with this record. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This unpublished work is a verbal map of the East Village, New York City. It is written in the same style as Kostelanetz's "Portraits From Memory," a book that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a four voice reading of the Gospels by ministers edited by Kostelanetz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book consists of 29 essays of writings by the Avant Garde in America. Kostelanetz mentions "Seatbelt, Seatbelt" by Amirkhanian and notes that it never has been commercially recorded. He includes essays on the work of Michael Joseph Phillips and Harry Polkinhorn. Kostelanetz raves about the esthetics of Peter Rose's film, "Pressures of the Text (1983), a work held by the Sackner Archive. He writes a complementary essay on Kenneth Burke and illustrates it with a concrete poetic "flowerisches." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is a collection of essays that Kostelanetz had previously published. An exposition of Dan Graham's schema is published on pages 143-145. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is "an introduction to happenings, kinectic environments, and other mixed-media performances." Nine members of the 1960's avant garde discuss their works with Kostelanetz in the new theatre forms, including John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenberg and La Monte Young. Richard Kostelanetz contributes two essays interpreting the new theatre in terms of its historical, social and aesthetic meaning. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Richard Kostelanetz edited this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Kostelanetz writes that "this book differs from most other writing about Cage in emphasizing his professional adventurousness, acknowledging not only his music but his theater, writing, radio, visual art, political philosophy, and much else, all reflecting a career based upon artistic (and thus artists') freedom...In its variety and its departures from expository conventions thirty Years is probably a more Cagean book than a measured continuous exposition." The design of this book utilizes page numbering through overlaying each page of text with a large gray number. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Elsas visited the Sackner Archive to study the Phillips works in the collection and several of the reproductions in this student thesis are taken from works in the Archive. The thesis is an exceptionally mature, perceptive critical accounting of Phillips' "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

There is no sound on this DVD. These videopoems were produced from 1985-1989. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.