Scope and Contents Described as "being a collection of poems, drawings photograms & Logos." Each page presents a human-like figure representing a commercial product, e.g., the Michelin tire man. 'Anthropomophiks' are creatures of a collective imagination. One would have to look to The Doctrine of Signatures through the eyes of an Ad Man to see them for what they are. This is definitely not Pop Poetry. According to a bookseller, the sensitivity that imbues each object comes directly from the mind/heart of a young seer engaged in the unpopular activity of revealing our selves to ourselves. Clearly in the tradition of the French Surrealists and Dadaists and the Russian and Italian Futurists, Fones' poems and kollages make up a vision of pure contemporaneity in which the figures in the landscape are real people possessed by the idea of mechanization in a world that disallows the personal. As a first book of poems this is an unguarded achievement, one which promises much for the future of both writing...

Scope and Contents Described as "being a collection of poems, drawings photograms & Logos." Each page presents a human-like figure representing a commercial product, e.g., the Michelin tire man. 'Anthropomophiks' are creatures of a collective imagination. One would have to look to The Doctrine of Signatures through the eyes of an Ad Man to see them for what they are. This is definitely not Pop Poetry. According to a bookseller, the sensitivity that imbues each object comes directly from the mind/heart of a young seer engaged in the unpopular activity of revealing our selves to ourselves. Clearly in the tradition of the French Surrealists and Dadaists and the Russian and Italian Futurists, Fones' poems and kollages make up a vision of pure contemporaneity in which the figures in the landscape are real people possessed by the idea of mechanization in a world that disallows the personal. As a first book of poems this is an unguarded achievement, one which promises much for the future of both writing...

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All of the illustrations in this book are reproduced from a series of paintings on canvas with the same stylized image of a face with two, three dimensional, sockets for eyes, and a drawer-like rendering of a mouth. Each painting is explained by Fones with a facing text. A single picture entitled, "First Word," has the letter 'D' in one eye socket, 'A' in the other, and 'D A' in the mouth slot. Fones explains, "The colours of the letter forms were taken from the water in Giotto's "The Miracle of the Spring," a painting from his Franciscan Cycle at Assisi. The grey colour of the head is taken from the rock surrounding the spring. In spoken language, the breath stream, as it is called, is modified or sopped by teeth, tongue, lips, and vocal cords. Similarly, these letter forms are continuous extrusions, shaped by the skeletal form of the two letters.This book is one of fifty copies bound by Michael Torosian. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The prints were reproduced from collages made by Fones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackners made major purchases of Canadian concrete poetry from this catalogue. Nelson Ball, the poet, was the proprietor of this bookshop. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue is contains materials from a symposium on the work and life of Greg Curnoe held May 11-12, 2001. Concurrently, there was an exhibition held jointly by the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto, "Greg Curnoe: Life & Stuff." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.