Scope and Contents The sentences of this poem are appropriated from the texts of famous authors who are credited on the back of the folder. William Allen: Folded publication with an enigmatic 'punctuation' design, of an exclamation mark, a question mark, a comma and a full stop, printed on the cover in black on white stock; contains four loose leaf sheets slipped inside, printed in a variety of colours on cream stock, with a poem on each page dedicated to one of these grammatical symbols: from each 'mark' the words - plagiarized from various canonical texts - spiral outwards, thereby creating a visual poem of dispersed and fragmentary text. The colophon has been printed on the back of the folding cover, which includes linear transcriptions of each of the poems; such as in "!": 'you're nothing but a pack of cards: Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland /goats and monkeys: Shakespeare, Othello / oh that those lips had language: William Cowper, 'On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture out of Norfolk.' --...

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This print on canvas is a reproduction of a rubberstamped drawing on canvas by de Charmoy from 1994-1995 that was lost when the artist moved her studio. It consists of the names of visual poets and artists who were important to de Charmoy. The names are rubberstamped in blue in an irregular pattern falling from abstract blue, undulating painted marks at the top of the canvas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.