The linocut abstract illustrations were made by Zeljko Kujundzic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The linocut abstract illustrations were made by Zeljko Kujundzic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

24th & 4th is an address in NYC where Lax observed life from a window in the 1950's. The poem, set in a more conventional style than Lax's characteristic poems, was first published under a pseudonym, Peter Lewis in 1958. The art work was done by Steve Fairnie. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The images consist of portraits of the face with widely different styles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

First copy printed. The abstract images derived from maps depict sound poems by Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The abstract images derived from maps depict sound poems by Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text of Havel's acceptance speech (in absentia) for the International Peace Prize of the German Booksellers Association in 1989 was illustrated by Jiri Kolar with 21 prints of visual poetic collages based upon typography from a Gutenberg bible page that contained the lines, "In the beginning was the word." The book was exhibited in "Celebrate Prague and the Book" at Cooper Union in 1992 and at New York Public Library in 1995. Havel's essay is a "tour de force" on the political power of words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text was written by Bouchet and the prints made by Tapies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Gardner iIlustrates eight brief poems by Ian Hamilton Finlay (3), Stuart Mills (2), and Simon Cutts (3) with abstract colored designs on facing pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book contains 13 highly stylized puppets made from bent stiff cooper wire and silkscreened papercard cut elements that are held in place on the pages with papercard folds. These can be removed and manipulated by pulling on the wires to produce movement of the wire and papercard elements. These puppets have a child-like, surrealistic sensibility and are magnificantly engineered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The question posed in this project was whether there could be a crossing over between Fax images and fine printing making images from Joyce's Ulysses. To respond, each designer selected a brief fragment taken from Ulysses, produced a typographic composition of the chosen text and Fax copied it. The Fax copy was converted to a polymer plate to be printed by letterpress. Each Fax printed image is preceded by a letterpress typographic composition on translucent handmade paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This stunning artist's-book homage to Jean (Hans) Arp was the painter and fine press publisher Harry Reese. Fragments and lines of text from Arp's poetry and prose are reconstructed by Reese along with his own images and words to create new "found poems" and translations. Text fragments appear suitably in French, German, and English. Reese's original images and letterpress printing include a glassine pocket of collage scraps of words and images -- for interactive "play" for the reader -- as well as a cover painting unique to each copy. This is the second edition after an earlier, smaller-format book issued in 1980 -- the concept now enlarged and fully realized. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

One thousand, five hundred, soft cover unsigned copies of this book were also issued. It includes 41 black and white reproductions of drawings by Guston. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Paris employs a different, experimental, calligraphic style for the text on each page facing an illustration. The book deals with the printer, PA Benoit. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Nine of the 12 linocuts are self-portraits by the artist, Lisa Davis. The work was designed by A.S.C. Rower. The corrugated cardboard bindings have been treated to appear "distressed," a metaphor for the title of the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.