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Scope and Contents Los Angeles Times Review: "Correspondences" by Ben Greenman (Hotel St. George Press: $50, 250-copy limited edition) is a beautiful, letterpressed, book-like object containing seven short stories that literally unfold before you. The case is earth-colored cardboard with a wine-red sleeve, almost like a box of stationery. The first story, "What He Was Poised to Do," is revealed as you open the case; the text includes numbers corresponding to postcards the characters write to one another. You might expect to find those postcards inside; instead there is a blank one there, inviting you to fill in one of those from the story. This is a challenge, because Greenman's writing is wonderfully intimidating, bountiful yet compressed; one willing lover is "like a penny rolling across the floor." Maybe you ought to read the other stories first? Each story involves letters -- to lovers, friends, a daughter -- but few correspondents hope to receive anything in return. Yet one story is set on the...

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The editor of this boxed series is Lisa Pearson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Drucker comments in her catalogue from the exhibition at Printed Matter that this was written in her Punk Phase. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book unfolds into seven booklets bound by six plastic spiral bindings. The images deal with the dogs and their owners living in Le Havre. This is the deluxe edition printed on Arches paper. The Sackner Archive holds another copy of this book that is printed in English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book object has the shape of a headless ballerina. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book object has the shape of a headless ballerina. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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First published by Grove Press in 1968, this edition was typeset and printed by Johanna Drucker. On several pages, light blue markings are printed under the text as a sort of abstracted female genitalia area. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The map illustrates the journeys of the protagonist in the story printed on the verso. The book is folded and covered like a conventional roadmap. The typography appears to be circa 1950's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The map illustrates the journeys of the protagonist in the story printed on the verso. The book is folded and covered like a conventional roadmap. The typography appears to be circa 1950's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book unfolds into seven booklets bound by six plastic spiral bindings. The images deal with the dogs and their owners living in Le Havre. This is the deluxe edition printed on Arches paper. The Sackner Archive holds another copy of this book that is printed in an French. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The author Matthias Baader Holst died at the age of 28 years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.