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This is the first draft of the final design for Bad, Coma Goats #40, 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the facsimile of the final design for the cover of Bad, Coma Goats #40, 1984, from which the stencil was made. The poem on the page has larger type than the final version. The back cover depicts a failed design for the front cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Cover graphic was designed by Barbara Caruso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The theme of this poem is anti-Gulf war. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Poem written in homage to the eighth anniversary of his son's death. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Manuscript is accompanied by a letter written in German by Brown dated June 11, 1976 explaining his method of interpreting Christian Morgenstern's "Fisches Nachtgesang." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poems were composed by Crews. levy did the cover design and five drawings. The images are atypical for levy in that they consist mainly of lines that are sharply defined rather than his usual amorphous shapes. *This piece was originally catalogued as a book (c.1968) but Jim Leftwich pointed out to the Archive that it was the second issue of Head Magazine. Stored with d.a. levy publications 1965. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the 'a' edition that includes a signed lithograph made from ink separation on celluloid. Editions 'b' and 'c' do not include the lithograph. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The illustrations that accompany the poem provide an abstraction to the act of breathing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Thom Szuter was a painter whose workshop was around the corner from Asphodel Book Shop in downtown Cleveland in the early sixties. He was very supportive of d.a. levy's work. He emigrated to Key West where he continued to paint and died of AIDS there in 1994. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The back cover was designed by Shaunt Basmajian. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The three copies held by the Sackner Archive are identical in terms of the poem; the constructivist line drawing on the cover differs slightly among the copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.