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This exhiition dealt with Nannucci's book and art works and those published by Zona and Exempla editions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems are typed on blue stock paper. The box was made by Timothy Ely. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems were copied onto standard white paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The box was made for the Sackner Archive by Timothy Ely. There are 20 stapled pages each with a typed poem; two additional poems are typed on the verso of two pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stored on shelf with Hundertmark material. This copy is a second edtion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text of this book appears to be done either as automatic writing or as an adaptation of a cut-up from another text in the style of William Burroughs. Typewritten poems in red color and Spanish poems in black letraset form this text. The stiff pages are taken fom line printers that have regular perforations on the edges. The tipped-in drawings in laminated plastic depict surrealistic figures and abstractions are placed on black stock paper; they appear to be cut-up fragments of larger drawings. A laminated drawing by Jan Voss is tipped-in to the final page. The covers are covered front and back with flame-like design papers. The inside front cover end paper is a psychedelic poster from the movie "Moby Dick." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Carla Bertola. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The following is abstracted from an afterword written by Marvin Sackner: I was initially uncertain whether the book was an assembling edited by curry or whether the 49 poems, one on each page and on the covers, in widely diverse styles, were produced by curry alone. Looking more closely, I recognized several poems by curry which had appeared in previous publications. curry had produced a compendium of sometimes playful, othertimes profound, visual/verbal imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The following is abstracted from an afterword written by Marvin Sackner: I was initially uncertain whether the book was an assembling edited by Curry or whether the 49 poems, one on each page and on the covers, in widely diverse styles, were produced by Curry alone. Looking more closely, I recognized several poems by Curry which had appeared in previous publications. Curry had produced a compendium of sometimes playful, othertimes profound, visual/verbal imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawings and rubberstampings are done on pages of brown wrapping paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The pages in this book, mostly in blue ink, demonstrate a fantastic capability of typewriting skills. Pella Erskine-Tulloch, the bookbinder commissioned by the Sackner Archive for this book, reproduced the first page of Chopin's handwriting on its cover. The table of contents lists the following titles: 1.Vibrances repoussees - Beaten back vibrances; 2.Vibrances positives - Positive vibrances; 3.George Orwell; 4.Octobre - October; 5.Vibrations; 6.Spirals; 7.Crocheteufs - Hooks (?); 8.Mouvoit (?); 9.Les Vibrates - The Vibrators; 10.Les vortex - The Vortices; 11.Spirales de l'an fabuleux - Spirals of the fabulous year; 12.Danse de l'an - Dance of the year -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Mentions purchase of "book of nails" by Marvin Sackner. The artist's notes and correspondence are typed and printed as photonegatives. The pages are not numbered. Internet: Drucker's work, which includes sculptural objects, installations, photography, video, painting, and artists' books, has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Mazzocchi Gallery, Parma, Italy; Libera Academia di Belle Arti, Brescia, Italy; Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria; Kennedy Gallery, Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece; Bouzianis Gallery, Athens, Greece; Art Centre of Hasselt, Belgium; Gallery SIDAC, Leiden, Holland; Biblioteca Rionale Affori, Milan, Italy; Center for Book Arts, New York; 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica; Space Gallery, Los Angeles; Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica; Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles; Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Rutgers University Gallery, Camden, New Jersey; Gallery 10, Washington, D.C.; and...

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These prints depict characteristic images of contemporary artists in typewriter format; only three of the eight images could be identified. This portfolio is rare and only one other copy could be located at Fondazione Berardelli in Brescia Italy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an early study for Carnival 1. The pages consist of photocopied fragments of newspaper clippings overwritten with abstract marks. There are also typings of the letter m's on the newspaper texts. The Sackner Archive holds two copies of this book that differ slightly in their covers and contents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work is an unlabeled box with unbound but numbered page scut in the form of an ellipse. Margarita Deidra Pietri is the Literary Administrator of Pietri's estate. His papers are held by Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, Hunter College, CUNY, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021 (212-772-4197) including material related to 'I Never Promised You a Cheeseburger.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The suite of 12 original printed typewriter poems by Chopin utilizes one letter each to represent the first letter of Ruth Ruth Marvin Marvin Sackner Sackner Concrete Concrete Visual Visual Poetry Poetry. Large letters in these poems appear to be sikscreen additions. In the book, there is a a usual Chopin typewriter poem reproduced for each letter, number, and signed on the keyboard. Paul Zumthor contributed a handwritten poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a minibooklet in which each page is cut in half horizontally such that the two halves can be matched to different pages to give permutations of minimalist poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.