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Poem written as an homage to Art Blakey, the jazz musician. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Hirschman writes in a letter to the Sackners that this is the first example of a Haikrostic, a poetic form of 24 or 25 syllables in contrast to the three line, 12 syllable haiku. Further, the first letters of every word add up to the name of someone. In this work, most of the haikrostics spell out the names of living and dead poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Hirschman's book is a homage to Sarah Kali accompanied by Gypsy glifs. According to Wikipedia, Saint Sarah is a patron saint venerated by the Roma (Gypsy) people. She is also known as Sara-la-Kali (Sara the black). The center of her cult is Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, a place of pilgrimage for Roma in the Camargue, in southern France, where legend identifies her as the servant of the two saints Mary commemorated in the town. An alternative legend has her as a pagan of noble birth and being converted to the faith of Abraham. In the traditional account, Saint Sarah was a native of Upper Egypt; after the Crucifixion of Jesus, Mary Salome, Mary Jacobe, and Mary Magdalene were cast adrift in a boat that arrived off the coast of what is now France "a sort of fortress named Oppdium-Ra", and the location was known as Notre-Dam-de-Ratis (Ra becoming Ratis, or boat); the name being changed to Notre-Dame-del-la-Mer, and then Le Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in 1838. Some say that the boat arrived in...

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The title os from a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Shadow," which the author's mother recited to him when he was a child. He states it was the earliest phrase that he associated with the "hypnotic sound" of poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The title is from a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Shadow", which the author's mother recited to him when he was a child. He states it was the earliest phrase that he associated with the "hypnotic sound" of poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Hirschman's response to political events in Eastern Europe and his defense of Albania. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Poem relates the holocaust to the plight of the homeless. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Theme relates to a surrealistic dream of Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Jack Hirschman created this visual poetry book in an expressionistic style with the free-flowing text merging with the abstract portraits and markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In a letter to the Sackners, Hirschman explains that the two poems constituting this book have not been previously translated into English. These poems are about Calabria in southern Italy. The first poem mentions the Kaballah and letters in "black characters" that are unidentified. Pasolini though raised a Catholic has a Jewish grandmother on his mother's side. In one of his most important poems about Marx, Einstein and Freud, he speaks of himself as Jewish which is usually evaded in Italian circles. The second poem deals with Algerians living in Italy. Hirschman believes Pasolini used the cruciform to resolve religious textures in the two poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Theme of book relates to the beauty of the Californian Coast. A double entendre appears in the poem since the "bear" and "star", words in the poem are in the cosmos as well as the Californian state flag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Theme of book relates to the beauty of the Californian Coast. A double entendre appears in the poem since the "bear and "star," words in the poem are in the cosmos as well as the Californian state flag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Theme of book relates to the beauty of the Californian Coast. A double entendre appears in the poem since the "bear" and "star", words in the poem are in the cosmos as well as the Californian state flag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The theme deals with a nostalgic view of the Russian language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Theme makes an analogy to the size of the Ant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem depicts a man sitting on a curb with a touch of the homelessness. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Contains hieroglyphics relating to the Mayan underground. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book and the tilles depict hieroglyphics relating to the Mayan underground. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.