The CD consists of the slides that Ficus used in his talk at the Avant 2 symposium at Ohio State University in July 2002. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The CD consists of the slides that Ficus used in his talk at the Avant 2 symposium at Ohio State University in July 2002. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Although Ficus Strangulensis' transmorfactions appear to be handwritten, they are created with a computer. This image was created for the Avant Garde Two symposium and exhibition held at Ohio State University (2002). The Sackners attended and Marvin Sackner delivered the keynote speech. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

These photocopied loose sheets were taken from a slide presentation given by Strangulensis at the Avant Garde Two symposium and exhibition held at Ohio State University (2002). The images are divide into 1) Cutups - visual poems with texts cut from magazines or books placed on varied visual backgrounds, 2) Haiku Cutups - visual poems with text cut from magazines or books to form a Haiku which in turn are placed on visual backgrounds, 3) Blends - transmorfations, 4) Spirography Blend - transmorfations created with spirography, 5) Collage Poems - concrete and visual poems created from found texts, 6) Spoliations -deliberate document destruction, i.e., poems created by ripping a page, and 7) Word Construct - concrete poem in which the arrangement of the words and the words themselves suggest another word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page depicts a handwritten column of words or wordlike forms which shows progressive alteration from a primary word to a new one or an image. Examples include among others 1) young - void, 2) falls - mist, 3) ripe - shoe, 4) seed - image of a tree. This has been termed "transmorfation" by Ficus Strangulensis and has also been utilized by other poets, notably Crag Hill, jw curry, and Geof Huth. The transmorfations are composed in a computer and laser printed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Other neologisms listed in this issue are informotion and streamseed. The subtitle signifies how the world grows and greens. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Several of the poems printed one to a page appear to been made using Burroughs and Gysin's cut-up technique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The last words of Dutch Schultz [aka Arthur Flegenheimer] and those of the attending LAW OFFICER were originally recorded in October 1935 as Schultz died of gunshot wounds. The book is inscribed to Jake Berry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue printed announcements of mail art exhibitions, anarchist events, art projects, books, networks, rubberstamps, etc. dealing with global mail. John M. Bennett designed the cover for this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Hat is stored with its predecessor publication, "VAN." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.