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Ovcacek contibuted typewriter poems on the front cover, end papers and four pages of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The group is composed of Rafael Rivera-Barreto, Paul Dutton, Steve McCaffery and bp Nichol. The edition size was 1500 copies but according to Barbara Moore, most were trashed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book appears to be a reproduction of Jappe's typewritten manuscript along with collaged additions of his poems. Several poems are concrete in style particularly toward the end of the book. For example Chapter X, p.6 depicts a reproduction of Herbert's Easter Wings along with a German adaptation of the poem. The rest of the chapter reproduces typewritten shaped poems, phonetic poems, constellations, sound poems based upon punctuation marks and permutations. Chapter XI contains poems on printed reproductions of polygraph paper and advertisements. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes poem based upon I-Ching 52 in memorial to Ken Cox. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Pages 11 & 15 are missing from the manuscript. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Deutsch wrote a one page poem about the feminine qualities of the typewriter, entitled "FINAL WARNING."goddam typewriterstaring me in the eye- WATCH OUT!pretty soonyou'll feel the rapeof paperslipping through your roller thighs& the rap of metal cocksthrough your slotwhere i whisper harshlywith ten fingersthe pain it is to be fleshwithoutmagic margins -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Contains a single reproduction of a poem using a typewriter with its content about the typewriter in poetry; the remainder of the book consists of printed conventional poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.