This book consists of an illustrated romantic essay.Wikipedia: Keith A. Smith (born 1938 in Tipton, Indiana) is an American artist and author. He has taught at the Visual Studies Workshop, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of Illinois. He is a recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, a National Endowment of the Arts grant and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. Smith creates books as works of art, as well as instructional texts on how to make books. he has made over 280 books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Smith states "The book format is movement. Rhythms of syllables and moving pictures of implied imagery flowing within text is akin to music and cinema. Events depicted in writing unfold through time in space, alongside the physical act of turning pages." This is an uncut version of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Smith cut and assembled pages for an appropriate reading of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Structure of the Visual Book by Keith Smith is reviewed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This annotated bibliography is written by Smith and includes descriptions and illustrations of his entire works. Smith writes a personal note to the Sackners stating that "this bibliography will give you an overall view of my work.: -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this catalogue, Share mentions that the Sackner Archive holds her work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is Smith's book number 143. Each line of poetry printed on 8 pencils that act as door hinges on the spine. The printed text on the pencils reads Weaving, Back and Forth, Writing in Time, Sewing my Words, Bowing the Box. The pages of this pie shaped book object are blank and as Smith explains in the colophon, ...the poem is not written by the pencils, but upon them. The binding was devised by Hedi Kyle and is called a piano hinge binding. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The subtitle of Smith's book number 134 is "Tale of Timothy Thomas Mott," a homoerotic novel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.