Marvin Sackner heard Basinski perform this poem at a symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition, "An American Avant Garde: Second Wave" at Ohio State University in 2002. Basinski read from the poem and commented on the images while turning the drawing side to side and upside down. After he completed this very droll performance, Sackner came up from the audience to ask him if he had ever recorded it. Basinski replied "no, because it is never the same each time that I do it." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book consist of the scores five single or multiple sound/performance poems with notes on the poems in a section at the end of the book. The poems are highly graphic in nature and are intended as a guide to the performer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Marvin Sackner heard Basinski perform this poem at a symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition, "An American Avant Garde: Second Wave" at Ohio State University in 2002. Basinski read from the poem and commented on the images while turning the drawing side to side and upside down. After he completed this very droll performance, Sackner came up from the audience to ask him if he had ever recorded it. Basinski replied "no, because it is never the same each time that I do it." Lastly, Basinski indicated that the template for the layout of the poem was an opened Cheerios cereal box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The pages are printed in grey ink with half of the vertical page with a different font printed upside down. The left side of the page is a Basinski poem and the right side a Basinski story. Abstract forms and illustrations are interspersed on the pages. The Sackner Archive also holds a deluxe copy of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The pages are printed in grey ink with half of the vertical page with a different font printed upside down. The left side of the page is a Basinski poem and the right side a Basinski story. Abstract forms and illustrations are interspersed on the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Derek Bieulieu comments on back cover: With TRAILERS, Michael Basinski engages in a Joycean celebration offloOwering. As he 'gave up and just repeated again and again singing softly, deeply with his eyes closed, ' the language bloomed past the letters, numerals, wingdings, webs and crickets into a dream language of the 'noise for active space'" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.