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This book documents a floral pattern wallpaper that is made up of foul language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book represents a man's body with a white, plastic spiral spine, a face and hair made of cut, smaller spiral spine material, a heart shaped heart printed with "je t'aime," and appropriately shaped booklets for the arms, abdomen, legs and penis. Crombie wrote the Sackners that these book objects were too difficult to transport and make so that none of the editions were completed as stated in the colophon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book represents a man's body with a white, plastic spiral spine, a face and hair made of cut, smaller spiral spine material, a heart shaped heart printed with "je t'aime," and appropriately shaped booklets for the arms, abdomen, legs and penis. Crombie wrote the Sackners that these book objects were too difficult to transport and make so that none of the editions were completed as stated in the colophon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The bookwith and its pages in in the shape of am imagined creature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The bookwith and its pages in in the shape of am imagined creature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text is printed on blueprint paper that will gradually fade with exposure to light. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The typography was done by Donato Cinicolo 3 and the etchings by David Brown at the New Crane Studio in London. The images consist of photographs of the artist's face and corresponding verbal tautologies of a facial part in juxtaposition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book depicts several themes that Miccini uses in visual poems, e.g., Poetry Gets Into Life, homages to important persons in art and literature through construction of pages indicative of their style, and word plays, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book depicts several themes that Miccini uses in visual poems, e.g., Poetry Gets Into Life, homages to important persons in art and literature through construction of pages indicative of their style, and word plays, etc. A section at the beginning of the book depicts poems with varies geometric shapes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.