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This is the fourth edition of a two year typewriting course that has marginalia written by a previous owner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a compendium of the author's long poems, some of which appear to be experimental fictions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents N[orman]. H. Pritchard contributed the typewriter, concrete and punctuation poems. Among the very first modern anthologies of newer African-American poetry, DICES OR BLACK BONES received the California Teachers of English Award for Best Anthology, 1970. This book was precedent setting in several ways. The editor was allowed to control the illustrator and thereby control the cover image, important at the time because so many contemporary publications then used lurid and often violent imagery to depict African-American experiences. DICES, instead, used art that expressed an African sensibility in keeping with the spirit of the movement-era of the early 1970s. The book premiered poetry by several of the younger Black writers who later became well-known: Al Young, Lucille Clifton, Ishmael Reed, Etheridge Knight, Victor Hernandez Cruz, David Henderson, Conyus, and Clarence Major, as well as many other writers deserving of attention. DICES challenged the prejudice there was no...

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This is the second printing, January 1978, of the book first printed on April 23, 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Up from Flatland by Phil Patton reviews the works of information designer Edward Tufte. His books "The Visual Display of Quartitative Information" and "Envisioning Information" are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Sanders' drawings that illustrate the poems are reminiscent of Jake Berry's ones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The RSVP cycles are defined as resource, score, valuation and performance. Halprin demonstrates in his writings and drawings how these factors relate to the creative processes in a continuous cycle of interrelated activities, and specifically influence urban and environmental planning. He describes scores as "Symbolizations of processes that extend over time...in all fields of human endeavor... as a way of communicating over time and space to other people in other places."The author has written a book based upon futurist theory of connecting avant garde artistic activities with landscape and city planning architecture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a posthumous publication put together by Niechoda from bp Nichol's notes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This publication is the proceedings of an Asthma symposium chaired by Marvin Sackner sponsored by Key Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Sackner commissioned the book artist, John Eric Broaddus to re-create this book in his unique and highly original style. Three copies were made by the artist; two were presented to the chairman and president of Key Pharmaceuticals and the third copy is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Paula Scher contributed an Op-Art illustration titled "Diagram of a Blog." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.