This is an example of Vitale's puddle photographs in which the image is photographed from its reflection in a puddle of water. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each card consists of a single word concrete poem describing the political situation in Argentina. Examples of words are indiferncia, inseguridad, hambre, miseria. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This drawing consists of the handwritten word, breath and its mirror image repeated in three columns. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

These prints are two stage proofs of a poem in white handwritten letters on a blue background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The author addressed several envelopes to herself through the Royal Mail Service with disguised addresses and 120 arrived, 10 did not. 75 envelopes appear in this book. The envelope addresses depicted in this book would challenge anyone and how the mail service delivered them is an immense tribute to them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Jan Palach doused himself in petrol and set himself alight on 16 January 1969. He eventually died of his horrific injuries three days later. The 20-year-old history student took this drastic action in an attempt to spur his fellow Czechs and Slovaks into actively resisting a return to hard-line communist rule in the country after the invasion of Warsaw Pact forces five months previously. Palach's extreme act of resistance briefly became a focal point for opposition to the Soviet-led occupation of Czechoslovakia and his funeral was attended by tens of thousands of people. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In notes to the poems, Smith states, "form determines meaning - better still - form is meaning, the cart before the horse or rather the cart becoming the horse, etc." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In order to be able to read this poem Houedard has drawn a diagram with the opened card that is to be set on a mirror. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover was done by Andrew Morley. Briers states that "The her(m)etic press makes no apologies for the undeluxe quality of this issue, the next one may be very expensively produced." Several poems in this issue are reprinted from other publications, specifically the non-British poets. Nebulum, Olive Dachsund, and Her(M)etic Press are stored in the same portfolio box and are filed under Olive Dachsund. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Through innovative calligraphy, the title can be read from right to left or vice-versa; Langdon calls this technique an ambigram. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

For this etching Phillips copied the label of a box of Kensitas cigarettes, but made up a ficticious character called: Ken Sitas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Gaard was the founder/editor of the periodical "Artpolice." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each alternate page that was printed on white or gray paper stock is cut in increasing enlarging horizontal strips. Concrete poems printed on each page deal mainly with the act of breathing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.