The cover photo is Wallace Berman's Portrait of Jay De Feo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Beat Movement,which started in the 1940's with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, also included other avant garde poets, writers, filmmakers and visual artists on the East and West coasts.This book served as the catalogue for an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art which was curated by Lisa Phillips. It contains nine essays by art, film and cultural historians, a detailed chronology of the Beat mmovement and a bibliography, Contributors include Lisa Phillips, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Sanders and Rebecca Solnit. It is heavily documented with photographs of the group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition deals with poetry off the page onto the walls of the gallery, including sculptures, paintings, films and videos. Curated by Jay Sanders and Charles Bernstein, the works "offer a constellation of intellectually compelling, poetically dense, visually dazzling works that represent some of the most exciting efforts in current practice." Catalogue essays were contributed by Jay Sanders and Charles Bernstein. Johanna Drucker's text is titled, "Plastic Modalities: Emerging Sentience." Tom Phillips' text is from "Notes on A Humument." The Sackners lent eight original pages from "A Humument." John Cage describes his work "Not Wanting To Say Anything About Marcel," a work lent to the exhibition by the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue focuses on the erotic and often overtly pornographic works by Berman and Prince. The catalogue Includes a reproduction of the poster for Michael Mcclure's "The Beard." This poster is also held by the Sackne Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes several critical essays and biographic remembrances. An untitled Verifax collage of a Mexican dictator that is depicted on page 56 is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Review of W. Berman exhibition at L.A. Louver Gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Exhibition was divided into five parts, Words from the Environment, Words as Sign and Structure, Words as Juxtaposition and Association, Words as Narrative, and Words as Socio-Political Commentary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.