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Tipping created this reproduction of the street sign by substituting the 'r' in port with an 'e.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Also designated th wrecking ballzark #1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Also designated th wrecking ballzark #5. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Provides a bibliography and explanation of the diverse publications of the press. Alabama Dogshoe Moustache prints language and concrete poetry. The Subtle Journal of Raw Coinage prints neologisms. A Voice Without Sides (VWOS) is a magazine of anything, viz. poetry, drawing etc. Epistlational Exscrapts is always packaged within an envelope, and gives a surprise. Socks, Dregs, & Rocking Chairs is an infrequent comicbook. goodbooqpres is a series of what passes for books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem folds out to the shape of a cube. Lingua means tongue, via means via, lingagem means language, and viagem means voyage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem folds out to the shape of a cube. Lingua means tongue, via means via, lingagem means language, and viagem means voyage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

his image was printed by Brice Marden. Saroyan received a $5,000 grant from NEA to produce this print and FOUR other minimalist, concrete poems. This grant prompted William Proxmire, senator from Wisconsin, to award his Golden Fleece Award to the National Endowment for the Arts as one of the most outrageous examples of slap-your-forehead misappropriations. In his book "an/thology of pwoermds" Geof Huth writes the following: "I began to write pwoermds after becoming entranced by Saroyan's eyeye. The simple beauty of that poem haunted me, even though (and maybe because) the poem began as a typographical error of Saroyan's and it took a friend of his to point out to him its signficance (Solt, Concrete Poetry, 57)." This print was redone in 1989 as a silkscreen orint in 1989 in an edition of 150 with a priceof $1,000 on the internet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Haiku reads white breath, windows frosted, fallen snow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The work consists of two flat panels of green colored plexiglas that enclose a clear panel held together by four plastic housings for disposable hypodermic needles. Seagram placed large, paper-cut, black and white, letters of varied size onto the clear plexiglas panel to form the text. It begins "U Tempest Us Nota Wit Ut Tel A Vision Air Y... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Introduction by Crag Hill. This is the second edition of the book first published in 1987. The printing employs bold typeface rather than normal typeface as in the first edition. The collaged page has been removed and there are a few substitutions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poems in the book of single words are an extension of the minimalist poetry of Aram Saroyan. In an introduction, Hill comments on two poems by Huth on facing pages, "Wooman and Breathsts" as follows: In "Wooman," Huth the two "o's" suggest brea In "Breathsts," the words "breath and breasts," are joined to indicate the analogy of the rise and fall of the breath and breasts. Breath is most necessary to survival even before food and water as are breasts symbolizing the fountain of life. This is the first edition of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Also designated Curvd H&Z No.5. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Also designated Curvd H&Z No.19. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.