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The poems use solely the word "rain" with the dot above the 'i' being varies from shading to added words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated one cent #190 (held by Sackner Archive) and Hit Broadside #2. Grumman utilizes blank space as a visual representation of the pond (pnd). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This essay is an excellent critique and analysis of selected poems that Grumman ties together. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Bob Grumman wrote the introduction in which he comments on the form of Kempton's poems whereby a word is split into two or more words by intervening spaces. He mentions that G. Huth designated this form as a severlation. These poems are printed one to a page, e.g., artifact = art if act, justice = just ice, herring = her ring, netherlands = net her lands, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Carries an announcement of the death of Gerald Burns. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The word "understanding" is typed repeatedly in four variations on a sky blue background. The top of the pages contain a blue colored rectangle, a division mark, and the words, "the sky," The fourth sheet also says "explainability" and contains a line of music and minimal poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Grumman gave this collage to the Sackners during his visit to the Archive in June 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated dbqp No.7 and Hit Broadside #2. Grumman utilizes blank space as a visual representation of the pond (pnd). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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RK in title presumably is the designation for Richard Kostelanetz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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RK in title presumably is the designation for Richard Kostelanetz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Grumman writes in the introduction to this small volume of poetry that he wrote the verses in 1966 when he was twenty five and Cummings work was all that he knew of "visual poetry." The Sackner Archive also holds the 1966 self-published edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This volume is the first, self published book by Robert Jeremy Grumman aka Bob Grumman. The Sackner Archive holds the Runaway Spoon Press edition reprinted in slightly smaller format in 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Bob Grumman has long been active in the micro-press as publisher (the Runaway Spoon Press), conventional poet (Of Poem), visual poet (Xerolage 30), mathematical poet (April to the Power of the Quantity Pythagoras Times Now), critic (Of Manywhere-at-Once), columnist (for Small Press Review) and blogger (Poeticks.com). His other interests include arguing on the Internet with wacks certain Shakespeare was a fraud, tennis, riding his bicycle (his only mode of local transportation) and trying to finish a full-scale (totally uncertified) theory of psychology he's had under way since he was 26. Bob says: "My hope is that engagents of the works here will experience them in the verbal portions of their brains more or less at the same time that they experience them as works of visual art. In a few of them, my "visual long-division poems,' I try to trip those entering them into a third part of their brains, as well." -- Source of annotation:...