The colophon states that the first 100 copies were numbered and signed by all the contributors. This copy is not in this first series and the incomplete list of signatures was obtained by the previous owner some time after the book was published. This book is a Festschrift in honor of Helmut Hessenbuttel; it is also designated Portrait 1 in a series by the publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Reproductions of examples of concrete poetry; one copy printed on white and the other on yellow stock. -- 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.

This book was first published in German in 1965. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The number of copies of this edition is unknown but is probably 500. This book includes bothe the German and Spsnish versions of Gomringer's seminal poem "silence." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Manuscript is accompanied by a letter written in German by Brown dated June 11, 1976 explaining his method of interpreting Christian Morgenstern's "Fisches Nachtgesang." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This manuscript was submitted to Eugen Gomringer for publication in his periodical, konkrete poesie, but was not published because the series terminated prematurely. Bayer's manuscripts are extremely rare since he died at the young age lof 32 years in 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The photogaphs are profiles in solid black and white of political figures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book deals mainly with Fahlstrom's literary and poetic works. It includes a reprinting of his manifesto for Concrete Poetry ( 1953). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.