Printed for English 102, fall semester, 1988 at Simon Fraser University. The cover concrete poem is entitled "From gifts" and is a work in progress. The book was owned by Warren Tallman, a Canadian poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page consists of a picture of a single letter design that is bordered by a red frame. All the letter pictures have a brief caption except for the letter 'E'. Letter pictures for 'Y' and 'Z' are ommitted. The caption for 'A' reads Poetry Being At A Dead End Poetry and for 'B' Dead. Having Accepted This Fact We Are. -- 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.

The cover line drawing was done by D.r. Wagner. In a poatscript, Nichol disavows these poems. -- 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.

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.

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.

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.

Some of the poems in this book are reminiscent of those by e.e. cummings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.