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A collaborative poem printed to celebrate the poets' participation in a conference on contemporary literature, March 6, 1999 at the University of Alabama. Marvin Sackner was invited to speak at this conference. Ginger Berry, the wife of Jon Berry, Jake Berry's sister-in-law printed the broadside. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book was made by Bruggeman based on poems by Lazer. The poems are illustrated with drawings of repetitive events, the electrocardiogram, electroencephalogram, an experimental music score, sine waves, and graphic solutions to mathematical equations. The poems on one side of the book are set in readable type, the poems on the verso are set in illegible smudged type. The compact disc is a recording of the author reading and performing his poems with The Alabama Poetry Ensemble. Jake Berry made the recording. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.