Leopold Sedar Senghor was a Sengalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who served as the first president of Senegal for two decades. He was the first African elected as a member of the Academie francais. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The column of letters in this poem spell out "dylan" as an homage to bob dylan and dylan thomas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Ezra refers to Ezra Pound. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Wolf's drawing, "Homage to James Joyce" was reproduced in Letter Arts Review Vol.11 No.3 as contributions to in their Seventh Annual Competition in the Singular Works category. Commenting on this work," Wolf writes, "In my pieces, I try to parallel visually the verbal structure of various texts, though not necessarily spelling out the actual words. This piece suggests the often incomprehensibility of Joyce's text, of comprehensibility only fo the "initiated." About "1001 Nights," she states, "The piece capture the flavor of the exotic Arabian fairy tales." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Leopold Sedar Senghor was a Sengalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who served as the first president of Senegal for two decades. He was the first African elected as a member of the Academie francais. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The phrase "Black Block" is printed in lower case letters to form five squares in the shape of a cross. Unclear as to whether this version was authorized by Finlay. This is a varient of Finlay's version which appeared in Rapel (1963). There is another lithographic print with the same title composed with Michael Harvey abd published by Wild Hawthorn Press (19745). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Thus poem is subtitled, "Dictionary poem in SN." On the left side of the card, Mayer presents an English translation from a text by Mallarme, "Les Mots Anglais (1877) that deals with creation of words. For example, Mallarme states that 'sneer' and 'snake' lead a reader of English to regard the diagraph 'SN' as being sinister. He then uses 'SN' to create a layout of words with such a beginning through incorporation of the vowels, e.g., snag, snail, sneak, sneeze, snide, sniper, snob, snot, snub, snuff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Three impressions of this print, published in Ruby Editions Portfolio 1, were superimposed on each other. The Ruby Edition Portfolios are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Drawing is a seascape with a sailboat with a single sale known as a ketch. The poem splits the word sketch into s & ketch. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This card depicts the five Olympic ring logograph but substitutes their colored lines with the names of fishing ships. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image on a CD was given to the Sackner Archive by Klaus Peter Dencker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem deals with the role of Napoleon III in the Salon exhibition in Paris in 1863 and lists several painters of that time, viz., Manet, Fantin-Latour. Whistler, Guillaumin, along with Salon des Refusee and the dates 1863 and 1963, the 100th year anniversary of this event. Wilkipedia: Pissarro agreed with a group of these young, artists about the importance of portraying individuals in natural settings, and expressed his dislike of any artifice or grandeur in his works, despite what the Salon demanded for its exhibits. In 1863, almost all of the group's paintings were rejected by the Salon, and French Emperor Napoleon III instead decided to place their paintings in a separate exhibit hall, the Salon des Refusés. However, only works of Pissarro and Cézanne were included, and the separate exhibit brought a hostile response from both the officials of the Salon and the public. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This print was released in hommage to Mautz's 75th birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This copy is from the unsigned edition = 50 copies were signed and numbered. Works by Emmett Williams depicted in this catalogue that are also held by the Sackner Archive include Alphabet Square (1956/83), she loves me from Mayer's concrete poetry, britain, canada united states, An Opera(1960/1987), Mat Mot No.6 (1965), Shakespeares XXC TH (1979), and La Dernier Pomme Frite (1989). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover illustration depicts the tetragram JHWH in Hebrew letters as designed by Daniel. Several concrete poems in this book are based on permutations of these four letters. Another section deals with permutations and combinations of the words, picture, drawing, writing, and text among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.