Cover drawing was done by Agneta Falk . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This back cover of Invisible City No.9, 1973, depicts a shaped poem (flask) by Mallarme that was translated and written in his own hand by Jack Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Deals with the issue of the "atrocity reports of the Iraqis...to the exclusion of all the people we had destroyed..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title of this book is a double entendre. It is a love poem superimposed on a background of King Solomon's alphabet. The poem closes with "Plum Bananas Over You." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Hirschman's response to political events in Eastern Europe and his defense of Albania. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Poem relates the holocaust to the plight of the homeless. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem deals with homage to the Russian soldiers killed in WWII in efforts to save their country. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a political poem dedicated to the Soviet army by Robert Rodzhdestvensky that was translated by Hirschman so that the English and Russian versions stand side by side. It appears to be printed on light sensitive brown paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Hirschman relates in a letter to the Sackners of September, 1989: "[Runebows] is a 'confluence' of 'plays' (A) the post-Finnegans Wake language; (B) the Oriental calligraphy; and (C) the masks of human configurations....I was simply -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is meant to evoke the current Gulf crisis. The visual images incorporate sand to signify the desert and ash from Mt. St. Helena's volcanic eruption to signify the potential for conflict. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this work, Hirschman recounts his childhood images intended to evoke a child's world and involvememt with those secret plays of home bubble to the surface as one gets older. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.