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Kostelanetz's correspondence with Depew considers their mutual work on publications and distribution of their works. Two Kostelanetz Year End Report from 1985 and1991 are included in this correspondence collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Huth discusses silence in the context of Gomringer's poem, "Silencio" and Cage's music. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cover was designed bu Emmett Williams. This issue also includes several concrete poems by Williams. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an interactive book with no prearrangement of pages or foldings that consists of images of letters, words and numbers that can be altered by the reader into a large number of variations. These elements are printed in varied fonts, dimensions and colors. The pages also have large perforations at different sites that provide layering of the texts from one page to others beneath it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue depicts images of each one of the works offered for sale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A photographic reproduction of a page from this book listed as No.177 in catalogue entitled "Alfa-Omega," 1989 is listed by Elisa Debenedetti in her catalog on Cattania works from 1952-1987. Cattania's calligraphy, achieved through a personal stylistic flame incising of the cloth pages, appears as grids and in diagonal overwritings of linear text. Images include a surrealistic eye, a menorah and a meditating yogi figure among others. One page has a grid composed of repeated number "3's." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Wikipedia: Vincenzo Agnetti (1926-1981) began his career as a poet. Starting in the 1960s, through the use of various media (pictures, performance, voice recordings, printed texts, graphic interventions on objects, prints on sheets of black Bakelite) he defined the contours of a conceptualism Italian who escapes from the rigors tautological and looking aseptic lot of conceptual art, for example, of American origin. The conceptualism of Agnetti is oriented towards forms, images and content more personal and existential matrix pessimistic, through anthropological analysis of language and at times expressing feelings of alienation, lack of communication and aphasia, for example in the series of works Villages Are Different (1974) or in its Autotelefonata (1977). He suffered a sudden death. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California. Exhibition was curated by Karl Kempton. The two linocuts were done by Maria Augusta. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The folded sheet is a photocopy on an article from The Korean Times explaining concrete poetry, specifically the works of Koh Won.Wikipedia: This is a Korean name; the family name is Ko.Ko Un is a South Korean poet. His works have been translated and published in more than 15 countries and he has been imprisoned many times. Ko is routinely mentioned as one of the frontrunners for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and Korean reporters have camped outside his house ahead of the annual recipient announcement. was born Ko Untae in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province in 1933. He was at Gunsan Middle School when war broke out.The Korean War emotionally and physically traumatized Ko and caused the death of many of his relatives and friends. Ko's hearing suffered from acid that he poured into his ears during an acute crisis in this time and it was further harmed by a police beating in 1979. In 1952, before the war had ended, Ko became a Buddhist monk. After a decade of monastic life, he chose to...

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The word "eat" is printed 19 times in a center column. On the top line, The letters "cr" and "ion" are added to form creation. In the middle of the column, "procr" and "ion" are added to spell procreation. At the bottom "d" and "h" are added to state death. Jacoby writes on the verso of the frame, "One definition of EAT: To corrode; waste or wear away. Life cycles are birth - sex - death. This poem is a combination of man's life cycles with the life process of wearing away." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Text consists of the words relating to time, seconds, minutes, hours, months, days, and years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This experimental music score is based upon Pignatari's concrete poem, "Life." A copy of the latter with a single letter on a page is included in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This item was originally labeled as part of a series, Archetype Press No. 31/Spr.