Scope and Contents This book is printed on rice paper. It is a surrelistic novel with a single illustration.Opal Nations was born in Brighton, England. During the mid-sixties he worked as lead vocalist in London clubs with the late Alexis Korner's Band and later his own group, The Frays. He helped popularize American soul-based R & B and gospel music in Great Britain. It was through his efforts that black American gospel artists visited the country to perform in various major cities. He also became part of one of England's first integrated gospel groups, The Ram John Holder Group. With The Frays, and later as a soloist, he recorded for Decca Records in London. After brief periods with various London R&B bands, he turned his back on singing and began a career as an experimental fiction writer. His textual work, sometimes strange, sometimes humorous in nature, appeared in over 200 small press magazines around the world. Texts have been translated and published in French, German, and...

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This book depicts the cover design "Lenin" by Ilya Chashnik, the periodical "H2SO4," and "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge" by Lissitzky, works that are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The technique of collage is the systematic exploitation of the accidental or artificially provoked confrontation of two or more alien realities on an unfamiliar plane - and the flash of poetry which results from their mutual approach. [Werner Spies]. The Sackner Archive holds "Maximiliana" published in 1964 in collaboration with Iliazd. Influenced by a little known astronomer, Ernst Tempel, the work is acknowledged to be Max Ernst's graphic masterpiece. Schamoni subsequently made a film documenting the making of "Maximiliana" which was entitled "The Illegal Practice of Astronomy." This densly illustrated book depicts photographs of Ernst and his works including Maximilliana as well as various statements made by him regarding his personal philosophy and artistic ideas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work was intended to be read as a single sentence and was dedicated to Liz Was. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work was intended to be read as a single sentence and was dedicated to Liz Was. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was designed by Henri Parisot. The drawings and cover designs were made by Frederick Kiesler. The edition also comprised 30 examples printed on Holland paper and 25 examples with a lithograph by Kiesler. 175 copies printed on Marais Creve-Couer paper were signed by Breton. Charles Fourier was a 19th century Utopian philosopher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Sloan designates the typewriter art in this book as "neo-concrete." DeVillo Sloan has also used the name Bill Sloan as in the typewriter poem in Buckle Vol.4 No.2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Second Edition; first published 1987. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Introduction by Clayton Eshleman. Postface by Robert Kelly. Collage by Bernard Bador. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The author's name is a pseudonym of an important protagonist of the May 1968 revolution in Paris. The book was first published in French by Editions Paul Vermont in 1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.