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This is primarily a photodocumentation of the Beat Poetry movement and also includes reproductions of Beat documents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover is a visual piece by Bernadette Mayer entitled, "The Golden Book of Words." The works in this catalogue were in the collection of Mayer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover is a visual piece by Lewis Warsh and this catalogue consists of books from the library of this poet, novelist, editor and publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This compendium of avant garde musical and performance pieces was put together by the students of Mills College. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Melvyn Freilicher and Eleanor Bluestein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dodie Bellamy: "Cunt-Ups is a hermaphroditic salute to William Burroughs and Kathy Acker. I started the project as cut-ups, in the original Burroughs sense, as delineated in The Job. I used a variety of texts written by myself and others. Per Burroughs' rather vague instructions, I cut each page of this material into four squares. For each cunt-up I chose two or three squares from my own source text, and one or two from other sources. I taped the new Frankenstein page together, typed it into my computer and then reworked the material. When my own source text was used up my cunt-ups were finished. The body with all organs slithers and lunges through netsex, psychic oozings, alien invasion, and serial murder. In ecstatic peristalsis the lover endlessly re/turns to life.Is the cut-up a male form? I've always considered it so"”needing the violence of a pair of scissors in order to reach nonlinearity. Is the pornographic a male realm? I think so. Women are usually stuck in the more...

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Richard Eckersley designed this book. His experimental layout is reminiscent of the style that he utilized for "The Telephone Book," a work also held by the Sackner Archive. This book consists of essays by several contributors dealing with varied aspects of postmodern culture including obsession with eating, communism, poetry, AIDS, and postmodernist fiction and non-fiction, anal retention, prostitution among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.