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The name, Lorine, in the title refers to Lorine Niedecker.The poems are letters that partially form the alphabet but are missing the letters forming her name.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The word logival relates to apophatic. In religious philosophical, terms, the following is an example published on the internet bu Larry Coon: 1. God is the entity than which no greater entity can be conceived. 2. An entity that exists is greater than an entity that does not. Therefore, God exists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This piece is based upon the slash-dash-bracket alphabet by Robin Farquharson (South African) as modified by Dom Sylvester Houedard. Guy Legge at the 1970 Isle if Wright Festival gave the following account of Robin Farquharson. He was on a reception ward at Horton Hospital, Epsom in the early seventies. I was classed as a schizophrenic and he was a manic-depressive two famous labels of oppression. He was twenty years older than me but had fallen foul of the psychiatric authorities at about the same time in the mid sixties. I was only fifteen when I was first fobbed off as a schizophrenic. I was intelligent enough to fight being drugged but at this time, the very early seventies, I had been sectioned for 28 days for refusing treatment. My earliest memory of Robin was of him showing a group of us his book, Drop Out. I was impressed that it had the cover illustrated by Alan Aldridge who had produced amongst other things the Beatles Illustrated Lyrics. I didn't actually get around to...

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The drawing is appended to the letter of the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The construction of some letters of this alphabet allows for making reversal poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited with an introductory essay by Bory, which traces the history of the Concrete Poetry movement and analyzes its aesthetic. Includes a short biography and diagram linking contemporary concrete and visual poetry to its antecedents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.