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This book was given to the Sackners by Susan Barron on 8/18/90 who wrote Concrete? or Cement? He's a friend of Cage... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book includes 20 poems from "154 Forties," a series that Mac Low has been writing and revising since 1990. The cover was designed by Anne Tardos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Mac Low explains the compostion of these poems. ""Asymmetries" are nonstanzaic chance-generated poems of which the printed formats are notations for solo or group' performance. They are "asymmetrical" in that they have no regularly repeating stanzaic or other patterns. They are "notations" in that most aspects of their format can be translated into aspects of performance. Notably, the lengths of blank space before, between, & after single words or word strings, & between lines, stand for "temporal holes" -- durations in which readers keep silent or produce single prolonged tones on instruments that can sustain tones evenly (e.g., winds; bowed strings; reed, pipe, & electronic organs; & other electronic & mechanical sound producers). To measure these blanks, each poem page is conceived as a rectangle of which the horizontal sides are the top & bottom lines of words and the vertical sides are imaginary margin lines running parallelly thru the rightmost and...

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The poems in this book were composed by chance operations through a chart made up of words denoting of all kinds of light. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems in this book were composed by chance operations through a chart made up of words denoting of all kinds of light. The chart is at the end of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These pamphlets were printed in May 1975 as Number Five in the Permanent Press series on the occasion of Mac Low's first English tour. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These pamphlets were printed in May 1975 as Number Five in the Permanent Press series on the occasion of Mac Low's first English tour. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In his introduction, Rothenberg describes his preliminary work organizing this book and visualized it as "an image in this instance of some supreme yiddish surrealistic vaudevillle" he could set into motion. Rothenberg adds a commentary section to each of the poems and provides a section on its source. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In his introduction, Rothenberg describes his preliminary work organizing this book and visualized it as "an image in this instance of some supreme yiddish surrealistic vaudevillle" he could set into motion. Rothenberg adds a commentary section to each of the poems and provides a section on its source. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The verso is a calligraphic text explaining how the print was made, the exhibition of it and instructions for performing the piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A print by MacLow of this work is also held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.