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The title of the book is Theme and Variations on Psalm 23. Frank Lalou contributed illustrations of texts of several translations from early Bibles to 20th century ones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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George Herms was an important artist is the California assemblage movement of the 1960's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Part of the series Interpretations in Art, this book is subtitled "Visual Art and the Critical Tradition." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is an anthology of Situationist writings that coincides with the exhibition "Situationists, Art, Politics, urbanism at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, curated by Libero Androtti and Xavier Costa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Geof Huth has contributed a forward titled "onewordworld" in which he writes, "To make a poem within the limits of a single word. That is the project. That is the entire project of pwoermds. To eschew grammar. To isolate words from the running water of sentence, To focus attention. To be a wordist more than a writer, To be a wreader more than a reader." pwoermd is definned "n. A single word presented as a poem adn unadorned with a title." [poem + word (w the letters rom each word alternated to produce the neologism)]"This book is dedicated for Bob Grumman (1941-2015). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: "This landmark collection brings together poetry, performance pieces, "traditional" verse, prose poems, and other poetical texts from Jackson Mac Low's lifetime in art. The works span the years from 1937, beginning with "Thing of Beauty," his first poem, until his death in 2004 and demonstrate his extraordinary range as well as his unquenchable enthusiasm. Mac Low is widely acknowledged as one of the major figures in twentieth-century American poetry, with much of his work ranging into the spheres of music, dance, theater, performance, and the visual arts. Comparable in stature to such giants as Robert Creeley, John Ashbery, and Allen Ginsberg, Mac Low is often associated with composer John Cage, with whom he shared a delight in work derived from "chance operations." This volume, edited by Anne Tardos, his wife and frequent collaborator, offers a balanced arrangement of early, middle, and late work, designed to convey not just the range but also the progressions and...

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Finlay defines concrete poetry as follows, "There is a difference between a poem which is 'about' a thing and a poem which IS a thing - its own thing, but not necessarily without reference to something else." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Gerald Stern contributed a critical introductory essay. Amazon.com review: Joshua Beckman, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, is one of those poets whose work you mustn't miss. His talent shines in his ability to make disparate events become part of a whole. "Purple Heart Highway" constructs loss as imminent danger ("where a train might mistakenly come") or as the pendulum between routine and chaos ("a gray grinning calmness / from which you can get nothing to wake") or as a sudden realization that threads far back into one's past ("I woke up to a plate full of no options / echoing through the cupped ear of my life / spinning the wheels that wouldn't, / for anything, take me away").In "Winter's Horizon" the theme of loss seeks--and finds--its own sensibilities. A boy writes a story about a father who rides off into the sunset on his riding lawnmower. The boy feels his story is full of meaning, his mother hates it, and his teacher gives it an A+. Yet the lines between...

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This catalogue documents an exhibition of artist books (multiples) by Hutchins. The check list of books are printed four to a card that is slipped into woven page strips also with book listings. The cards illustrate three book installations. The Sackner Archive is listed as holding work by Hutchins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Kostelanetz writes that "this book differs from most other writing about Cage in emphasizing his professional adventurousness, acknowledging not only his music but his theater, writing, radio, visual art, political philosophy, and much else, all reflecting a career based upon artistic (and thus artists') freedom...In its variety and its departures from expository conventions thirty Years is probably a more Cagean book than a measured continuous exposition." The design of this book utilizes page numbering through overlaying each page of text with a large gray number. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is Cobbing's introduction to " A Gala Exhibition" which took place at Royal Festival Hall in 1969. It included examples of contemporary British poetry and International concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Provides an extensive analysis of Magritte's painting, This Is Not a Pipe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackners contributed three works in this exhibition to the Lowe Art Museum by Paul Berger, Gordon Matta-Clark and Luigi Veronesi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive holds "Study for AMERICA (AFTER FRANZ KAFKA), 1985 -86", page 221. In this volume page 171 is illustrated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Salvest's artworks are reminiscent to those of Tom Friedman. Kim Levin contributed the introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Robert H. Jackson contributed an essay "William S. Burroughs: A Man with Qualities" and loaned much of the manuscripts to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.