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This exhibition catalogue lists Andryczuk's personal publications and provides illustrations of them that are ofter tipped-in. It also lists publications of other poets that he has published. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue lists the Sackner Archive in collections holding Haack's work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A Psalm of David is presented in conventional fashion on the first page and presented on the third page with several words in each line cut out of the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue complements exhibitions at the Univwersity of Pennsylvania, University of Georgia, Scripps College and Smith College. Daniel Traister contributed an essay "The Press and the Poets." The Sackner Archive is cited as holding works of Enid Marks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a listing of the printed material of Ian Hamilton Finlay from 1960 to 1990 donated by the Sackners to the Houghton Library in 1995. It is noted that there are no restrictions on access to this material and the collection is open for research. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was presented to participants in the Central Agency for Jewish Education (CAJE) of Greater Miami tour of the Sackner Archive. Curated by Marvin Sackner, all 86 works on display demonstrated the use of Hebrew letters, words and texts in ancient and modern contexts. The catalog listing is illustrated with 30 images scanned into the Archive data base. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The dedication reads, "to Marvin Sackner - The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry MIAMI USA - whose colossal collection, stockpiled over many obsessive years guarantees that this form of poetry beloved of many dedicated exponents world-wide will in all good time become visible." The first page provides Claire's definition of concrete poetry repeated 4 1/2 times on the page. Each subsequent page was created by overprinting through altering the position of the page in the ink jet printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Xenakis's Journal of 1974 is depicted that is also held by the Sackner Archive. The Sackner Archive catalogue of 1984 that list this and other works by Xenakis is listed in the bibliography of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was curated by Betty Bright. Pages of Timothy Ely's unique book, "The Open Hand Discovers," which was lent to the exhibition by the Sackner Archive are reproduced. Henrik Drescher's book, "Too Much Bliss," a work also held by the Sackner Archive was depicted on the cover of the catalog. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Joel Lipman quotes from the Sackner Archive catalogue of 1984 on page 170 of the Sackners opinion of levy's works. Douglas Manson contributes a scathing rview of Mike Golden's book, The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle." The dvd is an edited copy of a documentary film "if i scratch, if i write" about da levy by Kon Petrochuk first made in 1985 and fully realized for this book.Page 28 "February 1967 sees the launching of the Underground Thought Patrol, so named by John Scott, as a way of bluffing about inside sources of information, and playing off the group's interest in telepathy (Scott named it after a Frank Zappa song, "Who Are the Brain Police?"). A photo from an earlier Gate reading assigned those in the photo as the UTP, including: rjs, D.r. Wagner, Kent Taylor, John Cornillon, Walter R. Keller, Carl Woideck. The group is projected tribe of sympathetic listeners who announce police warnings and have great fun cutting up; the first time the term UTP appears in print is in...

Scope and Contents This first page from Dante Diary, which is dated from February 28, 1979 to March 19, 1979, includes several indirect references to Ruth and Marvin Sackner. First, there is a sketch of a large drawing which was subsequently acquired by the Sackner Archive, "Letters from a Crane Skin Bag." Then Phillips mentions that Grove Press is working on a portfolio of Dante heads for "Martin Ackerman's [financial] scheme. Phillips introduced Ackerman to the Sackners who became became a close personal friends as well as continuing supporters of Phillips' work. Tom Phillips writes that a portrait of Hilary Hugh-Jones is in progress in the studio. Hugh-Jones was a friend of the Sackners. "Pella meets me from Edinburg" refers to Pella Erskine-Tulloch, Tom's bookbinder and friend whose work is well represented in the Archive. Finally, Phillips composed a poem about Mallarme whose most important work, "Un Coup de Des," became the initial starting point for the Sackner Archive collection. [There was...

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This third page from Dante Diary, which is dated from May 10, 1979 to July 10, 1979, mentions Phillips' visit with the Sackners and receiving "good Miami postcards from Sara Sackner." The sketches on its right side depict installation plans for the British Council Show and a standing man wearing shorts viewed from the rear who appears to be in position for urinating against a wall. In addition, Phillips has sketched small drawings of Inferno pages (Una Selva) and a partially completed devil-like figure at the lower right corner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This ninth page from Dante Diary which is not dated, was drawn in Rio de Janeiro. Text at the top left corner reads, "dante in brazil," and on the top right corner, "Waiting for Pella in the New Wave." Pella refers to Tom's friend, the bookbinder Pella Erskine-Tulloch. A collaged "NY & Lakeville," with the name Lakeville scratched out, is placed below this caption. Phillips' handwritten notes explain that the plans to go to Lakeville, Connecticut with Martin and Diane Ackerman were cancelled. Phillips also writes that on his return trip from Brazil to New York via Miami he "was able to smuggle a postcard out of the tourist lounge at 5 a.m. to send to the Sackners whom I'd have loved to have seen." Phillips mentions his search for the Virgin Butterfly native to Brazil. The image of butterflys and poetry from "A Humument" is found in the third illustration of Canto II. ["A butterfly gives meaning to brighten poetry."] In his iconographical notes and commentary on the...

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In a section entitled "A Note on the Original Edition," Phillips mentions the following, "Heartening support was given by Ruth and Leo Phillips as well as the many patient collectors who bought their copies before a picture or a line was printed. Amongst those I should particularly like to mention Marvin and Ruth Sackner without those staunch encouragement the seven year trial of making the edition would have seemed so much less suprerable." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The title translates to "The Personal and the Other: Ten Years of Work." Eric Stephan contributes an introductory essay, in German and English, that points out Zylla's debt to Charles Bukowski and Jean Dubuffet. Jorn Merkert writes about Zylla's working methods. This catalogue mentions that Zylla's work is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Handout at Book Arts Conference, Center for the Book Arts, New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Huth describes his visit to the Sackner Archive on April 13th in the section titled "Home Sweet Museum." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.