Hirschman relates in a letter to the Sackners of September, 1989: "[Runebows] is a 'confluence' of 'plays' (A) the post-Finnegans Wake language; (B) the Oriental calligraphy; and (C) the masks of human configurations....I was simply -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is meant to evoke the current Gulf crisis. The visual images incorporate sand to signify the desert and ash from Mt. St. Helena's volcanic eruption to signify the potential for conflict. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this work, Hirschman recounts his childhood images intended to evoke a child's world and involvememt with those secret plays of home bubble to the surface as one gets older. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Several poems in this book are written like limericks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem sums up the seedier side of New York city. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem sums up the seedier side of New York city. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Several poems in this book are written like limericks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Sian Ka'An signifies Mayan words for the "birth of the sky". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

Jack Hirschman contriburtes an introductory essay describing Glik's poems and songs as personifying the creed of Partisans against Nazism particularly in Vilna , Lithuania. "When the news of the Waqrsaw Ghetto uprising reached the Vilna ghetto, it inspired Hirsh to write his famous song-poem "Zog Nit Keynmor (Don't Ever Say)"... In a short time and with amazing speed, Hirsh Glik's song became the anthem of the Resistance: It swept through the ghettos and camps and became known as "the Song of the Partisans." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

According to Hirschman in a letter to the Sackners, the title is a combination of Soviet and Dissidents. The works are put together in the same book-box.These drawinngs are of the very essence of the influence of the artists of revolutionary Russia. The title is meant to be humorous as these pieces and the box were conceived in relation, or rather in synchronous time with the goodwill games in Moscow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The pages consist of fragmented letraset characters on an abstract expresionist painting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.