ArchivesSpace at the University of Iowa

This is a catalogue for the first major collection purchased by the Sackners in the formative stages of their Archive. Hoffberg was representing Richard Aaron, the bookdealer who owned this collection. Hoffberg had offered the collection to Jean Brown who did not buy it but referred the Sackners as potential buyers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the second edition of number 3 in the Writers Forum 'Fives' series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is number 3 in the Writers Forum 'Fives' series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is number 3 in the Writers Forum 'Fives' series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The photograph shows several sculptured letter O's balanced on M's. The title, bean structure, references the Hindu word "om" intoned during meditation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackner Archive has two signed copies of this book, one in a series of 25 as in this copy and the other out of series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Reproduction of poems made with typewriting and letraset. The poems feature the letter "o." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue includes Finch's Helicopter poem and Hammer Lieder. This publication is edited by Antonio Claudio Carvalho. Chris McCabe internet: "Under his unit4art imprint Antonio Claudio Carvalho has produced a first series of poetry broadsheets inspired by Hansjorg Mayer's futura series from the 1960s. When he asked me to be involved it was one of those rare moments when you find yourself being written into the impossible dream history that you knew you'd missed and would only ever be a voyeur of. These are as close to remaking the original seminal publications as possible." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Photograph depicts a sculptural plant-like object with each leaf having a single word, e.g., mouths, songs, faces, space, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Photograph depicts a detail view of this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The seascape is composed of a mass of letters spelling seascape located in the lower left with the shape of an ocean wave. The upper right has the word yellow signifying the sun. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Peter Finch introduces his collected works by tracing those poets who influenced him. He writes that "concrete poetry does not use language for the recollection of emotion in tranquility but as the material of the poem itself." The book includes a poem, "Breath (after Philip Glass)," which repetitively utilizes the phrases, "the breath came and the breath went," as an incessant background rhythm for the main text in an analogous way that Philip Glass presents his music compositions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.