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The typed letters in several books have been expanded by several passes through a photocopier. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is also designated volume 2 of 4, selected works 1961-1975. The statements, "I like breathing... I like loving...I like sleeping in the grass... I like eating... I like running in the woods... I like dreaming... I like screaming" are laid out in concrete poetic form as well as modified on the pages of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Diagramatic texts are based on scrabble board games starting with the name Buster Keaton. Eleven performances derive from the list of words on each board and film clips of Keaton. Nine layouts of the Scrabble game are depicted that have a concrete poetic appearance owing to different choices of type face and weight. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Also designated th wrecking ballzark #23. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Thus poem is subtitled, "Dictionary poem in SN." On the left side of the card, Mayer presents an English translation from a text by Mallarme, "Les Mots Anglais (1877) that deals with creation of words. For example, Mallarme states that 'sneer' and 'snake' lead a reader of English to regard the diagraph 'SN' as being sinister. He then uses 'SN' to create a layout of words with such a beginning through incorporation of the vowels, e.g., snag, snail, sneak, sneeze, snide, sniper, snob, snot, snub, snuff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Edited by Ray DiPalma. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The covers and pages of this catalogue were designed by Lawrence Weiner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Also designed as "special issue." Consists of the word, Poem, printed two to three times on a page in large capital letters. A few pages have variations on this theme. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Grupo Texto Poetico is led by Bartolome Ferrando. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poems deal with actions that can be carried out over a concrete sidewalk. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The collage with three folded white handkerchiefs labeled "oral, topical, and spinal" refers to types of anesthesia and its relation to the poems in the rest of this work is not immediately apparent. The drawings consist of minimalist poetry with themes relating to food and common domestic events along with illustrations of fragments of a room. The prints depict concrete poems mainly with food related content. The seven silkscreen prints were published in an edition of 50. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.