This book is a well annotated listing of inscribed photography books from a private collection. There is a section that reproduces the inscriptions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Beat Movement,which started in the 1940's with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, also included other avant garde poets, writers, filmmakers and visual artists on the East and West coasts.This book served as the catalogue for an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art which was curated by Lisa Phillips. It contains nine essays by art, film and cultural historians, a detailed chronology of the Beat mmovement and a bibliography, Contributors include Lisa Phillips, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Sanders and Rebecca Solnit. It is heavily documented with photographs of the group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Nuttall writes about the youthful violence of the sixties and its relation to early 20th century artistic avant garde movements. He also describes the small press literary scene of the sixties including the Beats and the circle around Bob Cobbing and Writers Forum. Nuttall was a participant in the latter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book deals with the history and critical analysis of free verse. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

According to Sanders, "Investigative Poetry" signifies a form of historical writing. "Investigative poesy is freed from capitalism, churchism, and other totalitatianisms; free from racism, free from napalm-dropping military police states --- a poetry adequate to discharge from its verse-grids the undefiled high energy purely-distilled verse-frags, using every bardic skill and meter and method of the last 5 or 6 generations, in order to describe every aspect (no more secret governments!) of the historical present, while aiding the future, even placing bard-babble once again into a role as the shaper for the future." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a definitive biography of Patchen's life and work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Beat Hotel on 9 rue Git-le-Coeur in Paris, was the residence of the Beat writers during the years 1957 to 1963. It was here that Ginsberg wrote Kaddish, Gysin discovered the cut-up method and Dream Machine, Burroughs completed and published Naked Lunch, and Corso wrote the Bomb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

What began among a small circle of friends in New York and San Francisco during the late 1940's and early 1950's laid the groundwork for a literary explosion, and this striking anthology captures the storied era in all its incarnations - from the Benzedrine-fueled antics of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs to the painting sessions of Jay deFeo's disheveled studio, from the jazz hipsters to the beatnik chicks, from Chicago's College of Complexes to San Francisco's famed City Lights bookstore. Snapshots of lesser-known poets and writers sit alongside frank and compelling looks at the Beats' most recognizable faces. What emerges is a brilliant collage of - and tribute to - a generation, in a form and style that is as original as its subject. The text is by Harvey Pekar and others and the art is by Ed Piskor. Paul Buhle edited the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue annotates and depicts several books from the library of Pound and Rudge from their years in Venice. The dedications and the marginal notes reflect the personal and intellectual influence of Olga Rudge. The collection includes several volumes inscribed and gifted to Pound by Allen Ginsberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Robert H. Jackson contributed an essay "William S. Burroughs: A Man with Qualities" and loaned much of the manuscripts to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Essays by Frances Butler and Alastair Johnston present a historical, personal view of the founding of Poltroon, its philosophy and their artistic journeys during the twenty years of the press, a private voice in the public realm. They mention seeing the exhibition, "The Altered Page" at the Center for Book Arts, NYC consisting of works from the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.