The broadside was done by Gerard Georges Lemaire and Paolo Buggiani. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title translates to English as "The Nigger Jew." The English translation of the poem is printed in Spatola's book, "The Position of Things: Collected Poems 1961-1992 (2008). This poem apppears to be a post Holocaust poem without any direct allusion to it. It is not anti-semetic or anti-racial. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title translates to English as "The Door." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Listing of Little Magazines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Amazon.com: Recipient of the 1966 "Ferro di Cavallo" prize for a first novel, THE PORTHOLE was a highly praised and controversial debut. Pulling together diverse elements from the musical experiments of Cage, Schnebel and Kagel, the pictorial innovations of assemblage and pop art, x-rated comics, and dialogue from horror and World War II films, Spatola liberated his narrative from the stultifying edifice of Italian prose. The Porthole remains even more important today for its remarkable achievement in that fertile period of experimental literature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.