Hirschman contrasts the narrow demands of government with the freedom of making art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book consists of erotic stories from a magazine with the same title written during Victorian England. An introductory essay was written by Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Book consists of Hirschman's translation of a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The last lines of the poem are on the covers; the inside pages are intentionally illegiblized to reflect the trashing of the flag, part of the poem itself. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush and added figurative images in acrylic paint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

Work done in homage to Asa Beneviste, the American expatriate poet/publisher, who died in Yorkshire at age 64 of diabetes. The signs derive from original Welsh alphabets as Wales is closest to both Beneviste and Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work was written and constructed on the day of the cease fire for the Gulf War and its theme deals optimistically to the coming of spring. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The words in the title are written in the text as words made by a phonetic software package. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a love poem with tongue in cheek content to Sarah Menefee, Hirschman's current companion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover depicts a figurative expressionistic painting by Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The theme deals with the new order of Eastern European politics after the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was inspired by Mayan hieroglphics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is an extremely dense visual piece to express Hirschman's love of the gesture in his last bookwork commissioned by the Sackner Archive. A poem written about an Afro-American friend as text is obscured by overpainting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem was written in homage to Meridel Le Seur (1897-) a revolutionary writer who was a friend of Emma Goldman and Eugene O'Neil. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Title signifies Mayan periods of time; this work is a variant on the dot-dash system of counting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.