On the back cover and internet, it is stated that interacting within themselves and with the viewer/reader -- content, vehicle, medium, form and word, within a concept, pull together merging the themes and the means. It is you, the reader-viewer, that completes the work! Since 1977 -- uncountable visual poems, + 25 + small editions of artists' books, 100 + unique sculptural bookworks, a few with collaborators. Marilyn says: "TRANSPIRE TIER SPARE TEAR is made of altered visual poems. They are a merged version of 40 pages, of the hidden center in the artists' bookwork, TIER SPARE TEAR. This work unfolded, was shown in a few places, but the hidden spare visual poetry within was not revealed, not read, and never published. The bookwork's outer structure, the walls, in book format are folded and pressed together and are part of the visual poetry. "Now here are 16 visual poems. All interior pages are altered, some much more than others. Individual pages merge a bit here a bite there; words jump around and are cut apart, some more, others less. A few letters are added to each page. While small metal fish images expand and flatten, circles change and repeat, and a narrative expands around the minimal words. There are images of paper tears, and implied joys and tears, and illusions of tiers. "I am the tier of these letters and words with torn, stacked images; so, visual poetry transpired." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.