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The text of the four letter word squares is composed in Eon typeface. It is a revised edition of a book first published in 1978. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each page depicts 4 x 4 horizontal - vertical acrostic drawings on different texture backgrounds. For example, "fast - auto - stop -tops." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by LeRoy Gorman, this periodical contains poems by grade school students. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem consists of two acrostics based upon the word, Flute. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each page depicts a 4 x 4 letter grid that is an acrostic vertically or horizontally. For example: TITS - IRON - TOGA - SNAP -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Poem is an acrostic of Celia Hirschman, the poet's daughter on her 31st birthday. Red colored tape is used in the collage to signify her work in the music video business. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was a retrospective of Miccini's collages from1962-1999. It also served as an Homage to Miccini. Giuseppe Chiari provided an acrostic poem as a dedication to Miccini on page 3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text of this book is mainly based upon unabridged Merriam-Webster dictionaries and less so on the Oxford English dictionary. Articles written in Word Ways magazine are also quoted. Eckler is the current editor of Word Ways. Definitions and lists of common and rare word plays are provided, e.g., lipograms, vowel language, text-determined obligatory or forbidden letters, tautonyms, word graphs, isograms, panograms, bigrams, ca dences, transpositions, word squares, letter-shifts, long words, et -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This sculpture contains forty words hand printed in ink on the sides of ten wooden square blocks. Each block, that can rotate on a wooden dowel through hand movement, measures 11.4 x 11.4 x 2 cm. The words selected by Phillips for each block are: Modernism, Miami Beach, Moonlight, Memory - Inspires, Indulges, Identities, Ignores - Ambiguous, Amorous, Artistic, Abstract - Madness, Mythology, Miracles, Moments - Idiotically, Inwardly, Ineptly, Intensely - Brainless, Backward, Bohemian, Beautiful - Egoists, Emotions, Erections, Eccentrics - Always, Artfully, Already, Absurdly - Confuse, Clarify, Complete, Celebrate - History, Heartache, Happiness, Hysteria. The first letter of each block vertically spells Miami Beach.Illustrated in "Works and Text 1992 " on page 110. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Archive purchased a book of "architectonic" poems by Optatianus Publilius titled Panegyricus dictus Constantino Augusto dated 1596 and a volume of Theacritus dated 1539 which contains three poems printed within woodcut figures from this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited and annotated by Martin Gardner from the 1896 edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The back cover was designed by Valery Sherstjanoi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A poem is pringed on each page with six stanzas with the first letter of each phrase reading WI EIS HIIC Y S&T HNII. At the bottom of each page is a reproduction of a telephone drawn by Ray Johnson, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This archive, from the collection of Jan van der Marck (1929-2010), who curated it, essentially duplicates the pamphlet that accompanied the limited edition box of the same title. It includes four announcement cards from Language I, II, III & IV exhibitions at the the Dwan Gallery 1967-1970 with artists that might have received his invitation to contribute to the "Pictures..." or "...Telephone exhibitions. The former is not included in the pamphlet catalogue nor is the invitation letter included in the Archive. Other missing elements from the Archive that are depicted in the pamphlet include correspondence from Al Howard & a found advertisement on bottle caps. Bauermeister writes a long rambling letter with her thoughts on her contribution according to van Marck's dictum, viz., an object with no intrinsic value that can be picked up in a dimestore, found on a beach or manufactured with little trouble - expressive of your likes & ideas, an element recurrent in your work...

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Cover by Barbara Caruso. Includes an acrostic poem to Colombo's wife Ruth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.