The image depicts a self-portrait of Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a reproduction of page 85 of Mallock's "A Human Document." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page is reproduction of Mallock's "A Human Document." All are marked up with pen or pencil, but each page is visually and stylistically unique.

The poem title on the background reads: " The Pun Of My Aunt" and the poem reads:" le superiority de standing - le curious arrangement - le shining; de viveur. - the hard monde of separation, - la world de conversation fresh - la lady, beautiful de rejoicing - la porte de douce trance cherie, - un swell chef de sometimes - o ma british douane - mon man le mistake." The original of this print is also held in the Sackner Archive that depicts the same image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a mainly an ink hatched drawing that was intended for Ciaran Carson's book of poems, Opera et Cetera, Wake Forest Press, 1996, but not utilized in the printed edition. The text is from A Human Document by Mallock. Carson's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. This small fragament contains the following poem: "monsieur art sage monsieur h - dix-huit luding I heard him claim our name - ch - hc - reve omph enderi St ! - tribute to h - ink beau-payin you with his tongue wit." The protagonist in this poem, H C, is Henri Chopin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text reads "death? - is this not the sunshine? - lacing, playing a vagrant quesion- to elbow aside his own death - soon a sick shadow passed the air - elbow the probability." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text reads "Just take Goothe or Horace Duke - to show poetic life - no example, with music of Sir Walter Wellington - what a trifling locamotive - a butterfly gives meaning to miles of industry --poetry --let mego." The image is three silhouetted figures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The prints have been removed from the folder and placed in a mat, two to a mat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Items were removed from matting and were returned to the original folder. Added: CEND.

The image of this print appears to be fragments of a British flag. The poem reads, "searching for the complete extreme picture - he had lately done enumerated horse flesh; and water billiards - English Art." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem reads " A most magnificent kind of woners catalogue - DOCUMDNT the universe; and vanish - doumenti--libri----multa--admirandi! - at his bedside - all the reading of the thing with the stamp of art. tp ms and rs." Here Phillips is prising the Sackners' catalogue of their collection of concrete and visual poetry(1986) for which he also designed the cover. The same poem with a different image as a print with only 'tp' for Hansjorg Mayer publications catalogue is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem reads, "Her man - free and tender days of Poetry - pay day of happiness; and love - Tickets ready - for Liverpool and expectancy - the glimmering shores of yesterday receding." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem reads "the gallery of a hundred years of a thousand is in every street - art in the street covered deep with pictures vivified". Includes part of a map cut out. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

One of the prints depicts most of the lines obliterated with brown paint and the other one with white paint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

For this piece that is based on a die, Tom Phillips lettered the text in varying numbered circles. the lettering is in the style of his text based wall sculptures where each letter is linked to adjacent ones. The text is the title of the poem "Un Coup de Des Jamais Abolira le Hazard" by Stephane Mallarme. Phillips writes that, " the first line of the foundation poem of chance procedures (and concrete poetry in general), outlines another dilemma which I translate as 'A throw of dice will never do away with chance'. Each dot on these giant dice incorporates the line and through the mysteries arising from the solid geometry of a transparent cube each "throw" gives rise to new configurations as chance plays its second role. Looked at from the sides, from the corners and from above, the cube's symmetry produces illusions and paradoxes of perception, hints of mirrors and fractures appropriate to each of these statements." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This booklet was written for a workshop in a grade school class and is a second edition of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This version is actually unique because the final version was entirely printed. It has been designated as Opus 13. In addition, it includes Phillips' handwritten notations. Depicted in Tom Phillips: Works Texts To 1974, page 259. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Notes read "Motto variation on Christian Wolff's 'Stones' (from Prose Selection). Little drops of water bore holes in stones. OP. XIII. / Stage proof [silkscreen with gouache] / Aquae guttae saxa excavant. / (Little drops of water bore holes in stones.)" Added: CEND.

This is a colored drawing that was intended for Ciaran Carson's book of poems, Opera et Cetera, Wake Forest Press, 1996, but not utilized in the printed edition. The printed page is Carson's poetry. Carson's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a gouache drawing that was intended for Ciaran Carson's book of poems, Opera et Cetera, Wake Forest Press, 1996, but not utilized in the printed edition. The text is from Carson's poetry. Carson's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.