According to Hirschman, the title derives from four Mayan words: Nup=unite(d), Chal=mend, sew together, Han=clear, clean, Buk=heart. He thought of this as a marraige gift since the words can be read as Nuptial Handbook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem is a spoof relating to a film recently made on the Beat Generation poets; Hirschman considers it a dead movement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Onekahakaha is a Hawaian word meaning "picture drawing sand." The visual works in this book are varients of Hawaian petroglyphs. The poem in the book is an Indian love song written by Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Onekahakaha is a Hawaian word meaning "picture drawing sand." The visual works in this book are varients of Hawaian petroglyphs. The poem in the book is an Indian love song written by Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Cover drawing was done by Agneta Falk . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This back cover of Invisible City No.9, 1973, depicts a shaped poem (flask) by Mallarme that was translated and written in his own hand by Jack Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Deals with the issue of the "atrocity reports of the Iraqis...to the exclusion of all the people we had destroyed..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title of this book is a double entendre. It is a love poem superimposed on a background of King Solomon's alphabet. The poem closes with "Plum Bananas Over You." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

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

This poem deals with homage to the Russian soldiers killed in WWII in efforts to save their country. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a political poem dedicated to the Soviet army by Robert Rodzhdestvensky that was translated by Hirschman so that the English and Russian versions stand side by side. It appears to be printed on light sensitive brown paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.