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On facing pages, Brannen presents a conventional poem on the left side and a deconstructed rendition on the right side almost as a constellation form of concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Published by actor Russ Tamblyn who was part of Wallace Berman's circle in Topanga Canyon. Hirschman mentions Louis Lepke Buchalter, Jewish-American member of Murder, Inc. in the 1930s & 1940s in this poem. He was apprehended and sentenced to death in the Electric Chair in 1944. The deconstructed photographic portrait on the cover by an unidentified photographer is not Buchalter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book includes the poem was inspired by the centennial of Walt Whitman's death, "The Glass Man Left Waltzing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.