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In this book, Antin mentions that he considers his "Talking" works as poems. He also adds that some of them classified as concrete poems depending upon their layout on the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The catalogue consists of 50 photocopied, rubberstampings by Ruch as well as a biography and participation with others in group stampings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Chopin mentions the death of his wife, Jean in 1985 "when everything stopped." Also, he adds a visit to Miami in 1985 (gave a performance at the Sackners that is not cited in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes long essay by Tom Patterson on Jonathan Williams and his publishing house, the Jargon Society. Describes the trials and tribulations encountered by Williams in selling his Archive of the Jargon Society to various University Rare Book and Manuscript Collections. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Essay deals with the artistic activities of Francisco Conz, the art publisher/collector. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive is mentioned as containing the PPP works. Also Marvin Sackner's "Chicken Soup" postcard of 1987 is listed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text of the book mainly is in the form of interviews which lend an insight into Porter's multi-faceted creative life. There are also many tongue-in-cheek comments. Several pages are collaged with artist stamps designed by Carlo Pittore. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text of the book mainly is in the form of interviews which lend an insight into Porter's multi-faceted creative life. There are also many tongue-in-cheek comments. Several pages are collaged with artist stamps designed by Carlo Pitttore. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this videotape, Phillips recounts the beginnings of his major bookwork, "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this videotape, Phillips recounts the beginnings of his major bookwork, "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the biography of Jon and Louise Webb and their trials and tribulations of printing of the Outsider magazine, tributes to Charles Bukowski and Kenneth Patchen, and, the assembling of Henry Miller's "Insomnia." These works are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition comprised Borges' works from the collection of Jorge Helft. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents New York Times book review: William S. Burroughs "didn't say anything for shock value," his student Sam Kashner once observed. "His life had shock value." Born to a prominent St. Louis family in 1914, Burroughs linked his lineage at every point to the fatal plotlines of American hubris and power. His mother's family had been slave owners in the antebellum South; his paternal grandfather invented the adding machine, a building block in the embryonic military-­industrial-media complex. His uncle Ivy Lee, a pioneer of public relations, counted Hitler's regime among his preferred clients. Burroughs himself spent time in Vienna in the 1930s and learned a lesson he never forgot: Everything Hitler did was legal. Laws could spur, not deter, the blackest of crimes. To top it off, young Bill had also attended the Los Alamos Ranch School in New Mexico, which in 1943 would be co-opted for the Manhattan Project. "The sick soul, sick unto death, of the atomic age" became his great...

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Announces the installation of "Heretic Chapel" at Franklin Furnace. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes a reference and illustration of the Seventh Assembling compiled by Richard Kostelanetz and Henry Korn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Guy de Cointet was born in Paris in 1934 and died in Los Angeles in 1983. Note that the drawing (1978) on page 64 is in the same style and dimensions as the Sackner Archive held drawing, Ut To Be Realized (1977). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated "Beitrag Nr. 6 Zar Timm-Ulrichs-Hagographic." This book documents Ulrich's prior activities. The anagam on the cover is NAME-MEAN> -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.