Jonathan Williams' book of poetry, "The Magpie's Bagpipe" is reviewed by Philip Balla who creates a vivid description of Williams' poetic life style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue includes a biographical sketch of the Gerlovins. Includes an advertisement that featured Natalia at Spagetti & Co. Milan. The Sackner Archive holds an artist book by this artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes an essay by Rimma and Valery Gerlovin on Russian Samizdat Books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes images of artwork done in from 1974-1984 in Russia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The worded photographs are contact prints that have been drawn upon in typical Gerlovin fashion. The red and black text and line drawings with thick pen strokes consist mostly of variations upon the accompanying photographic images. In addition, the text also includes concrete poems and manifestos. Several of the worded photographs have been released as individual prints in editions. This book was a commission piece from the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was gifted to the Sackners upon the visit to the Gerlovin home in New City, New York on 7/7/13. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Sponsored by SAUPRA, (Society for the Advancement of Understanding Post-Modern Russian Art) the exhibition was a contemporary Russian initiative. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition is based on children's books created by fifteen visual artists. For the Gerlovins, text and image are consistently integrated within their works using photography, language, and their own bodies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Ellen Lupton reviewed The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946. Steven Heller contributed an interview with Rick Poynor, design writer and editor of Eye Magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.