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Edited by Carla Bertola. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This work is a typographic tour de force in which the accordion folds are placed such that the text can be unfolded as a horizontal continuum. The type is printed in red, black, blue, and orange highly saturated colors. The poem is based upon a performance piece by Duke that completed in 1973. The poem describes Dada in Zurich in 1916, in the winter in Berlin in 1918-1919 during the hardships of WWI, as Dada slept from 1923-1945, and in Australia in contemporaneous times. The Sackner copy is one of 25 in a portfolio; No.1 was in a designer binding, No.26-29 were unbound, and 5 copies were hors commerce. Except for the title which is in the German language, the text is in English. The book was conceived and designed in a constructivist lay-out by Mike Hudson (who never met Duke according to a personal communication to the Sackners) and set in a wide range of lead and wood sans serif types by Jadwiga Jarvis. The portfolio has papercard inserts for two pamphlets on the inside front...

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Pie O wrote the Ockers poem in 1983 that describes the character of a stereotyped Australian man of the seventies. Mike Hudson designed wild, colorful pop art, linocut, graphics to match Pie O's vividly expressive poem. The poem was hand set in letterpress by Jadwiga Jarvis. Julie Copeland contributed an introduction and glossary of Australian slang and neologisms to this poem in the accompanying brochure. An Ocker is defined as an "uncultivated, aggressive, boorish, uncouth Australian man who also displays qualities such as good humor, helpfulness, and resourcefulness...this is a serious poem which challenges slick, nationalistic slogans about Aussies, ockers, mates, winners & battlers, in the most effective way possible, by quoting them, reshaping them in the voice of a poet with a love of the lived life of language." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.