This work is a typographic tour de force in which the accordion folds are placed such that the text can be unfolded as a horizontal continuum. The type is printed in red, black, blue, and orange highly saturated colors. The poem is based upon a performance piece by Duke that completed in 1973. The poem describes Dada in Zurich in 1916, in the winter in Berlin in 1918-1919 during the hardships of WWI, as Dada slept from 1923-1945, and in Australia in contemporaneous times. The Sackner copy is one of 25 in a portfolio; No.1 was in a designer binding, No.26-29 were unbound, and 5 copies were hors commerce. Except for the title which is in the German language, the text is in English. The book was conceived and designed in a constructivist lay-out by Mike Hudson (who never met Duke according to a personal communication to the Sackners) and set in a wide range of lead and wood sans serif types by Jadwiga Jarvis. The portfolio has papercard inserts for two pamphlets on the inside front cover and an insert on the inside back cover for the soft cover accordion book. Pie O contributed an essay, entitled jas h.duke, printed in an accordion pamphlet. It gives a biographic sketch of Duke and the influence he had on Australian experimental poetry. Pie O's first encounter was hearing Duke perform Dada, a sound poem. He mentions that Duke died of surgical complications associated with a fractured leg in 1992. He quotes his last poem recited prior to being wheeled into surgery: Solidarity Explained. When the axe first came into the forrest - the trees said to each other - the handle is one of us. Mike Hudson contributed an essay, entitled A Gloss on Dadaism, which gives a general view of dada and a specific view of Duke's writings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.