Jerome Rothenberg contributes a pre-face in which he writes that "Footnotes, presented here, is the accounting of where Alison Knowles' feet (and hands and mind) have taken her." The pages of this book are reproductions of notebook pages dating from 1975 to 1995, inscribed and collaged by Knowles. As Knowles herself stated, "It is important to remember that we are free to make art and poetry out of anything: A loaf of bread, some beans, a hasty jotting on the train." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.