Eileen Myles contributed an essay "True to Type" dealing with the concrete poetry and word art of Kay Rosen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

These are reduced photocopies of larger size prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Kay Rosen contributes an introductory essay in which she writes that "In the 1970's, I had made the transition from an academic approach to languages to a visual one because to me the most interesting things about language were not what was included in its formal rules, but rather what I stumbled upon accidentally...These most mundane and undervalued bits of speech were distinguished not only by their rejection of normal doctrine, but also by their potential to convey meaning non-linguistically. They needed to be expressed visually to be realized." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each non-translucent page with text is overlaid with a translucent page printed with green lines in varied arrangements. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Only the cover of this book by Fernando De Rojas of a classic drama has been appropriated by Rosen. On the top half of the cover, there is a list of words in Spanish and on the bottom half, their English counterparts. The content seems like automatic writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Rosen used black squares and rectangles to cancel fragments of text from a paper she delivered at a panel discussion in 1990 at Richmond, Virginia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Auction catalogue. The Sackner Archive holds a smaller version of the photograph by Shirin Neshat titled "Unveiling" that is listed in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The inside of the box for this exhibition has four compartments, one for representation of each of the participating artists. Kay Rosen's are concrete poetic-like prints on stiff cardboard. Fiona Rae provides a thick, impasto, acrylic, abstract expressionist painting that is numbered 227/500. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition was curated by the Brazilian Sergio Bessa (b.1951) who serves as the Director of the Bronx Museum in NYC. A biography of Bessa appears on David Daniels' Gates of Paradise web site. For this exhibition, Kay Rosen contributed four pages of language poetry and Vic Muniz three pages entitled "Study for Neon." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.