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Clive Phillpot contributed a critical essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Consists of feminist artist books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Translated from the French into English by Jean Chopin. Wkiipedia: Froissage is a method of collage developed by Czech artist Ladislav Novak in which the lines made by crumpling up a piece of paper are used to create a drawing. One major exponent of the art of froissage was Jirí Kolar. He acquired a reputation as one of the most inventive 20th-century Czech artists. A member of Group 42 and the first Czech Group of Experimental Poetry, he assisted in the development of the collage techniques of froissage and confrontage. During that time, writing poems and crumpling up pieces of paper were considered subversive activities and were discouraged by the then-powerful Communist regime. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Almost all the book images, one to an author/artist, are accompanied by a brief biography and a personal statement. Timm Ulrichs' book object "Concrete Poetry" is depicted. The Sackner Archive holds one of the 50 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text is based upon correspondence between Cole and Chuck Welch and consists of Cole's ideas on visual poetry, correspondence art, and collaborative artist books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Homage to the thirteenth century Spanish Kabbalist poet Abraham Abalafia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.