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Each card consists of a single word concrete poem describing the political situation in Argentina. Examples of words are indiferncia, inseguridad, hambre, miseria. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In notes to the poems, Smith states, "form determines meaning - better still - form is meaning, the cart before the horse or rather the cart becoming the horse, etc." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each alternate page that was printed on white or gray paper stock is cut in increasing enlarging horizontal strips. Concrete poems printed on each page deal mainly with the act of breathing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is an anthology of Steen's works dating to at least 1963. It reproduces his print, "Red Dor;" the actual print is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The two German words that mean in English 'forget & promises' are printed in right side up and in reverse right side down. Thus, the poem is read, 'forget promises - promises forget.' This typing is designated No.492 in Gerz's Catalogue Raisonne Volume III. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.