Includes a photocopy of Mallarme's Un Coup de Des (1914), -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book is a diary of Bory's trip to Japan along with 25 concrete and visual poems about his experience there. The poems are designated calligrammes by Bory. The sketches for the concrete poems in ink and graphite were subsequently printed from a computer with a laseror nk jet printed -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In the letter collaged to the front cover, Bory expresses his disappointment that the Sackner archive did not acquire his recent manuscript from Gallery Jacques Donguy. Bory writes that in the future "Europa will be an hell and i would like to save my creative work in the New World. Am I wrong?" Touched by the tone of this message, the Sackners subsequently purchased copy A and the manuscript for this book. The latter is stored in the Archive of this publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Inscribed to Something Else Press. Bory has added in ink "Hiroshima +" to title on cover page. The print, "Spot"by Bory that is reproduced in book is held by the Sackner Archive. Edited by Brian Lane and Trevor Wells and is designated No.112 in bibliography of book entitled "The Printed Performance Brian Lane Works 1966-99." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text has been engraved onto highly polished, reflective, stiff copper sheets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

First printing. Bory's introduction traces the history of the concrete poetry movement and its aesthetic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book contains Bory's well known poem "La poesie est..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.