ArchivesSpace at the University of Iowa

According to Kettner, "First (and only) edition. Average press run for Bomb Shelter: 300-500 copies. Light gray cover with matching text of heavy vellum offset stock. Mixture of art, visual poetry and prose poetry. An orgy of collage-like visions, whipped to a froth and served to the raging, cosmic furnace." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Foley contributes an Afterword in which he points out that Berry phrases juxtaposed to other phrases may have nothing to do with each other. Foley indicates that readers identify the value of a text with its unity but Berry's text is deliberately & fundamentally incoherent - though it is not insane. Berry is not under the delusion that his text makes sense whereas in fact it does not. It is a glimpse of chaos that allows us to hold our minds, without danger, in constant perception of a powerful force, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Publishers of the periodical "Scrap." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.