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One of 11 drawings in the series is illustrated. The subject is "the ten globes of absolute light of the tree of the Sephiroth and the false eleventh Sephirah named Daath (or knowledge) which spans the Abyss of Transition." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The haiku in this book are presented as amorphously shaped, fragmented, repetitive texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text of this book was printed from individual rubberstamp letters. The bibliography consists of a description and excerpts of small run, non-circulated editions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Amazon.com: What do thousands of kids, makers, poets, artists, steampunks, hipsters, activists, and musicians have in common? They love typewriters"•the magical, mechanical contraptions that are enjoying a surprising second life in the 21st century, striking a blow for self-reliance, privacy, and coherence against dependency, surveillance, and disintegration. The Typewriter Revolution documents the movement and provides practical advice on how to choose a typewriter, how to care for it, and what to do with it"•from National Novel Writing Month to letter-writing socials, from type-ins to typewritten blogs, from custom-painted typewriters to typewriter tattoos. It celebrates the unique quality of everything typewriter, fully-illustrated with vintage photographs, postcards, manuals, and more. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Tom Phillips' blog includes the latest information about his exhibitions and reviews and design projects in London and in the Westminster Cathedral. The most detailed portion of the blog describes and illustrates Phillips' work on his painting "Quantum Poetics." Phillips' description of his creative process in developing the work is a rare insight into an artist's mind and techniques. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the first draft of an introductory essay for the exhibition catalog published by the Franklin Furnace on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue annotates and depicts several books from the library of Pound and Rudge from their years in Venice. The dedications and the marginal notes reflect the personal and intellectual influence of Olga Rudge. The collection includes several volumes inscribed and gifted to Pound by Allen Ginsberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Mac Low composed the poems in this book by modifying sentences with different words by a rigorous technique in Virginia Woolf's novel, The Waves. This method was used to generate other poems from Mac Low's experiences. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a list of books from the library of Alan Clodd, a supplement to Catalogue1358 Against the Grain, ossued by Maggs Bros. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Kirkus Review: is the sturdy old typewriter, and this biography of a machine might just catch on. It's fun reading and conveys the vim and zest it imparts to our bustling economy and its inevitable facet, office life. It starts with a sparkling tribute to the girl secretary, as she led the invasion of the sacred portals, via the machine. Bliven has a facility in enlivening what might have been dull reportage of an invention that revolutionized communication at local level. Henry Mill of England worked on the idea in 1714; William Austin Burt of Michigan was the first American to pick it up, thought it just a byproduct but patented it in 1829. After an interim of fifty two dabblers in the invention came Sholes of Milwaukee, who put it on its keys. From then on- the histories and struggles of such household names as Remington, Underwood and Smith; of Mark Twain who thought the typewriter ""too curiosity breeding""; of the novel The Typewriter Girl whose doughty heroine proved she...

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Smith states in an interview with Alan Bowness that his paintings "can be thought of as visual poetry, but they are not to be confused with concrete poetry. It is essential that my paintings are only visually understood. They are sound scores concerned with harmonies, discords and pauses...I seem now to be able to build up a visual written language that can deal with any experience of sensation. A written page can be remade in the same way that an artist remakes an object. WORDS BECOME OBJECTS." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Tom Phillips designed the 50 pence coin set into the perforation of the card. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California. Exhibitoin was curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.