ArchivesSpace at the University of Iowa

A red blank grid printed on each page progressively decreases in number of its elements from the beginning to end. Each poem is imagined by the caption to its right, e.g., 15 x 30 words, 14 x 28 words, 13 x 26 words, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The letter contains instructions for Ruth and Marvin to perform this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work depicts a simple diagram based upon Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending the Staircase." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This volume was published as a joint project of the ICA and the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania as a spoof on the exhibition of Rodney Graham works taking him as a female not male artist. Matthew Abess, an intern at the Sackner Archive, was one of 16 students of Kenneth Goldsmith who participated in writing this book. He contributed a permutation poem and signed the pages where he made his contributions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The author lists 12 variations of aphorisms on the first page, listing the following words: objects, thoughts, things, words, and names. They are placed into 81 different circular diagrams that are reminiscent of Boolean algebra. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Winkler's work consists of forming line constructions and geometrical shapes based upon connecting the letters of a word with straight lines to a circle of the letters of the alphabet. These shapes might be considered a semiotic representation of the word in a non-verbal language. The line drawings by themselves are also placed on the landscape photographs. The significance of the typings in a non-verbal language done on the verso of the pages with the colored photographs of the landscape and ancient tablet scenes is cryptic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.