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The poems in this book were composed by chance operations through a chart made up of words denoting of all kinds of light. The chart is at the end of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Evason notes that he wrote these poems on a computer while is was suffering from schizoaffective disorder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

With the exception of the signatures of the authors, this limited edition does not differ from the ordinary edition. The added price was set to subsidize the publication of the trade edition of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

curry describes his adventures on riding a train as a hobo in this story. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The clipping also contains a tribute to Klonsky by Anatole Broyard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The line drawings of the performance of Aikido, a philosophical martial art, that were done by Cutler Shaw illustrate the texts of Crane. A conversation between the two artists prefaces the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In addition to her conventional poetry, Derora Bernstein provides an essay, "An Afternoon with Jack Hirschman." The latter contributes an introductory essay and poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The author recounts, in a most charming essay, his experience in curating an exhibition on Armed Services Editions (ASE) from World War II. These oblong paperback books were produced for the military by a Council on Books in Wartime; originally there were 1322 titles, but copies after 50 years were rare. Daniel Miller sets guidelines for other novice curators which he calls the seven First-time Curator Commandments for his exhibition "Books Go To War." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Mary Connors' interview of Emmett Williams is titled "Artist As Poet, Inventor and Cosmological Humorist." It describes his mode of creating his sequence works and his exhibition "Schemes and Variations-Serial Paintings, Lithographs and Drawings." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This newsletter reveals the plans of Miekal And and Liz Was to establish an avant garde, hypermedia village in abandoned properties in West Lima, Wisconsin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem was written by Lazer in May 1993 while on a three week cultural exchange program to China. The poem consists of three sections and each section contains nine stanzas of nine sentences each. Lazer writes that his "interest in sentence-based poetic compositions derives from reading of the work of Ron Silliman, Lyn Hejinian, and Gertrude Stein." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Edited by Jean-Marc Vincent. Consists mainly of interviews of Gysin and Burroughs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

David Barringer presents his personal views on the graphic design world in an essay of 34,940 words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The drawings in the margins accompanying "Empty Words" and the neologisms of the text are reminiscent of Jake Berry's style of writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Contains an essay "Hey, Great Caboose!" which describes a new generation of train hoppers, including john curry and Lance LaRocque, who continue the tradition started in the '30s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poems selected by the author for this volume are largely autobiographical and are printed in block-like forms. Much of Howe's writing reflects her New England, patriarchal background and her transition from the visual to the written word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.