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his image was printed by Brice Marden. Saroyan received a $5,000 grant from NEA to produce this print and FOUR other minimalist, concrete poems. This grant prompted William Proxmire, senator from Wisconsin, to award his Golden Fleece Award to the National Endowment for the Arts as one of the most outrageous examples of slap-your-forehead misappropriations. In his book "an/thology of pwoermds" Geof Huth writes the following: "I began to write pwoermds after becoming entranced by Saroyan's eyeye. The simple beauty of that poem haunted me, even though (and maybe because) the poem began as a typographical error of Saroyan's and it took a friend of his to point out to him its signficance (Solt, Concrete Poetry, 57)." This print was redone in 1989 as a silkscreen orint in 1989 in an edition of 150 with a priceof $1,000 on the internet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Series is edited by Alec Finlay. The poems mainly consist of words in Spanish and a Scottish dialect whose meaning has been altered by insertion of one to three letters in small typeface within words printed with a large typeface, e.g., PEnSAR, PaiENSE, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a collection of concrete poems that are printed one to a page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Edited by d.a.levy. One of the poems in this book, "Susan Under John Poem," appears in a different layout in Polluted Lake Series No.10, also held by the Sackner Archive. The theme of the poems is the sexual act expressed by repetitive printing of the word "fuck." The author subsequently wrote feminist critical texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Edited by d.a.levy. Poem consists of a single word place strategically on the page, viz., "snow above distance" to engender a vision of a landscape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book contains reproductions of paintings by Martha Alt and a word glossary. The line drawing in the book depicts a bird. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book contains reproductions of paintings by Martha Alt and a word glossary. The line drawing in the book depicts a stylized bird. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book contains reproductions of paintings by Martha Alt and a word glossary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book contains reproductions of paintings by Martha Alt and a word glossary. The line drawing in the book depicts a stylized propeller. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book contains reproductions of paintings by Martha Alt and a word glossary. The line drawing in the book depicts a horizontally split pyramid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem relating to the title is in(strum)ment in which strum is printed in red and the other letters in black ink. This poem was also published as one cent No.183. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Also designated dbqp No.7 and Hit Broadside #2. Grumman utilizes blank space as a visual representation of the pond (pnd). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem reads, "memORy." On the verso, Valoch states, "written on the day i heard about his death." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dutton added a letter to recognizable words to take on a new meaning. The defintions of the new word are printed on the same page. The Sackner Archive holds the printed book based upon this manuscript. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A siingle wor is printed on different colored paper stock, viz., PUT, (SIC!), CAT, & TOO. PIZZICATO, Clark's imaginative summation of the four words is printed on the inside back cover. The front cover shows incomplete pin holes on the lower right corner (plucked?) of one copy (purchased from William Allen Books) that is not present in the other. Designated No.114 in bibliography of book entitled "The Printed Performance Brian Lane Works 1966-99." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.