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This work consists of brief, individual poems using lipograms of A through H. It relates to Coleman's other book of lipograms, "Mal Arme (Letter Drop III)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram (a sentence or phrase that includes all the letters of the alphabet), "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island's Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is both a hilarious and moving story of one girl's fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

It should be noted that Ernest Vincent Wright in the novel "Gadsby" also wrote a novel without the letter 'e' in 1939. This copy is a reprint of the original novel first printed in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue deals with photographic images of nude women and suburban landscapes taken by Prince. Note there was interrupted mailing to the Sackners. "point d'Ironie" No.41 Damian Hirst was included in Dellafiora's Field Report 2006 and No.42 Tobias Buche was included in Field Report 2007 along with a single folded page of the Hreinn Fridfrinnsson issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.