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Stored on shelf with Hundertmark material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book consists of 13 reproductions of original tpewriter poems and personal observations by Chopin as well as contributions regarding his work by his friends. Chopin provides a description of his artistic and political life as a poet, publisher and typewriter artist. Nicholas Zurbrugg contributes an essay from 1994, "Henri Chopin: Astronaut of Inner Space." This book includes one original typewroter poem that is placed within a paper folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work was designed by Ruth Franken (1924, Prague -- 12 September 2006, Paris) who was a Czech-American sculptor, painter, and furniture designer who was mostly active in Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In addition to the sound poetry texts in this book, the varied stock papers of the pages give rise to different sounds on turning the pages, a phenomenon not readily achievable on ebooks! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The pages are printed in grey ink with half of the vertical page with a different font printed upside down. The left side of the page is a Basinski poem and the right side a Basinski story. Abstract forms and illustrations are interspersed on the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The pages are printed in grey ink with half of the vertical page with a different font printed upside down. The left side of the page is a Basinski poem and the right side a Basinski story. Abstract forms and illustrations are interspersed on the pages. The Sackner Archive also holds a deluxe copy of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.