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 book includes a reproduction detail of a Daniel f. Bradley rubberstamped drawing on sleep; the original is held by the Sackner Archive. The Sackner Archive also holds the original typing by Basmajian entitled "After Weeks and Weeks in the Intensive Care Unit" that is reproduced in this book. The total run of this book is probably 300 copies (signing not called for). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes a printed cartoon by bp Nichol. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Designated Studies in Concrete Poetry No.4 and is a reprinting of the lecture delivered by Cobbing at the Text as Figure exhibition in Wolfenbuttel 1987 with the following topics: 1) typewriter dirty clean, 2) typewriter, 3) calligraphy hand writing drawn letters, 4) press-on lettering, 5) press-on letters & other means, 6) mimeo misuse, 7) found materials, 8) more found materials, 9) photo-copying, 10) photo-copier, 11) computer, and 12) back to the beginning. The 69 examples in this book include mostly Cobbing's poems but a few examples of other poets as well. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Designated Studies in Concrete Poetry No.4 and is a reprinting of the lecture delivered by Cobbing at the Text als Figur exhibition in Wolfenbuttel 1987 with the following topics: 1) typewriter dirty clean, 2) typewriter, 3) calligraphy hand writing drawn letters, 4) press-on lettering, 5) press-on letters & other means, 6) mimeo misuse, 7) found materials, 8) more found materials, 9) photo-copying, 10) photo-copier, 11) computer, and 12) back to the beginning. The 69 examples in this book include mostly Cobbing's poems but a few examples of other poets as well. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work was first published by Ganglia Press in mimeographed form as the Singing Hands Series No.3 in 1966 (held by Sackner Archive). The present work was published as a component of bp Nichol's bookwork, "bp" by Coach House press in 1967. Nichol provided instructions on the back cover for burning this booklet. Another copy was published by fingerprinting inkoperated in 1992 (also held by the Sackner Archive). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work was first published by Ganglia Press in mimeographed form as the Singing Hands Series No.3 in 1966 (held by Sackner Archive). It then was published as a component of bp Nichol's bookwork, "bp" by Coach House press in 1967; this work is also held separately by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Cobbing describes the history of contemporary sound poetry and the techniques utilized by the poets. He concludes "The very diversity of sound poetry is in line with its emphasis on the freedom of the individual and the withering of external authority, on man as a communal and social animal, on communication as a life-giving activity, things which in this bureaucratic and techncratic age we need constantly to remember." This is Cobbing's manuscript essay for the ground-breaking exhibition, "klankteksten ? konkrete poezie visuele tesksten - sound texts ? concrete poetry visual texts - akustiche texte ? konkrete poesie visuelle texte." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Reviews international small press scene. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is a compendium of Canadian avant garde writing from 1965 to 1985. Margaret Atwood, who contributed an over-view essay of the work produced during those years, collaborated with Bok to organize the selections of experimental fiction by the authors. John Riddell contributed "Pope Leo: El Lope" from Criss-Cross. It is a lipogram using only the letters e, o, l and p. The contribution by bp Nichol is from "Still... a novel that depicts in minute detail the scenography for a potential, but postponed , story... his words provide a kind of textual terrain across which the eye pans like a camera." Steve McCaffery's "Panopticon" is an enigmatic whodunnit...The panopticon symbolizes the maze of words through which the reader must wander, playing the role of invisible spectator." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.