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This book includes a reproduction of a calligram by Apollinaire and a reproduction of a military formation using letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book includes a reproduction of a calligram by Apollinaire and a reproduction of a military formation using letters. The Sackner Archive also holds the first edition that was printed in French. This reprinted edition is an English translation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The pages of this book have been deacidified. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the catalogue for a major Dada exhibition that travelled from the Pompidou Center to the National Gallery in Washington to MoMA in New York. The exhibition presents many forms of Dada in the principle cities of Zurich, Berlin, Hanover, Cologne, New York and Paris. The chief curator was Laurent Le Bon. The facsimile ticket "Etiquette de bagage" by Marcel Duchamp was made by Mike Bidlo. Includes several photographic portraits of the Dada artists/poets as well as complete reproductions of Dada periodicals. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Jackman demonstrates in a drawing the dimensions of the chair used in the her piece held by the Sackner Archive, The Poet Assassinated, that its basis was Picasso's Maquette for a Monument to Guillaume Apollinaire. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Consists of an introduction into the history of concrete Poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Auction catalog. Includes a large section on the works of Hap Grieshaber. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue mentions an erotic artist book held by the Sackner Archive, Dieter Wagner's "Roll Over Marilyn." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The exhibition was conceived on an original idea by Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and curated by Andrea Rosen. The exhibition included the works of 341 artists and poets. Several works were lent by the Sackner Archive. The catalogue was a gift of Andrea Rosen and is a checklist of the exhibition including diagrams of the placement of the pictures in the gallery and an artist list index. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This volume is the first collection of Rothenberg's poetic writings and includes ideas and excerpts from his books and essays. Rothenberg indicates that Abulalfia (1240-c.1291) himself writes of the abstracting/spiritualizing process which he then employs & by which the world is apprehended as language/sound: "Know that the method of tseruf (the combination of letters) can be compared to music; for the ear hears sounds from various combinations,in accordance with the character of the melodu & the instrument. In touch with yogic currents fgrom the East, Abulafia's intention was mantric, but his practice of a systemic & concrete poetry also closely resembles the 20th century Lettrisme of Isidore Isou, the asymmetries & nuclei of Jackson Mac Low & the blues Kabbalah improvisions of Jack Hirschman, all of whom he may have influenced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is an unpublished essay dealing with Copithorne's personal involvement in visual poetry -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Auction catalog of twentieth century illustrated books, original editions, autographed manuscripts, and bookbindings. Documentation of books particularly well done. Several books, generally with special bindings or different editions of authors cited are held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Nearly complete listing of works and documents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.