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The ink color in each line of poetry becomes greener and relates to green vegetables (verdure). Apparently, Stevie Smith was a vegetarian. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page has a handwritten, brief poem in black, blue, red, or yellow colored ink. Although the poems were all written by Hirschman, he attributes the poems to his family, e.g., Ruth, David, and Celia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This print is Roth's typographical riff on C. Day Lewis' poem "Reflections." It was one of a series of seven designs commisioned by the Plastics Division of ICI to demonstrate the potentialities of stamping foils in graphic design. Other designers include Alan Fletcher, Jean-Michel Folon, Norman Ives, Pieter Brattinger and Armin Hofmann. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem was composed by adding a line appropriated from different classical poems by such poets as Marvell, Dryden, Jonson, Pope, Wordsworth, etc. It was printed by Milke Taylor at the Literary House Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.