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Scope and Contents Basinski reviewed this book on the WEB: "Bodh[i] Circu[it]s / Alg[a]e[bra] D[ra[in]] continues work that Derek White has done in his previous books: 23 Text Tiles and Mining in the Black Hills both 2003 from Calamari Press. This is expansive visual poetry and as that something needed. Guilty, visual poets are sometimes of repeating themselves via style and form and medium but you won't find any of that in Derek White. He is the most expansive visual poet I've read in some time. Each page in fact is a new field of work, a new form, form of forms, and he has not abandoned the word but has each time found it fresh and new again and is able to ornament it in balance with visuals, various forms, lines images, color, type, print, hands, photocopy, and conglomeration, a constellation cooperation of mediums germinates and generates into a splendidly babbling work. And with babble I mean only a compliment because babble is the multi-sound/dimensions one hears, as sweet delight, when...

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The edition consisted of 12 numbered and signed copies and four artist proofs that contained the reief print and three additional prints. In addition, 90 ordinary copies did not include the relief print and three additional prints. The images consist of young girl's bottom underware. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents New York's undersung borough of Queens, home to the new Ellis Island (the city's airports), may be the most diverse county in the country today, and documentarians Lehrer and Sloan have innovatively brought it to life. First-person narratives that sometimes intertwine several voices (some were broadcast on the public radio program The Next Big Thing) are matched by a bold and colorful layout: large portraits, long-view landscapes, multiple typefaces (sometimes within the same paragraph) and inset graphics or asides. The stories are grouped in five lower-case sections: contemporary pilgrims," "asylum seekers," "family ties," "neighborhood tales" and "unlikely coexistences" (Ping-Pong players, a high school, a punk-gypsy cabaret band). The language can be poetic; a Congolese asylum-seeker declares, "Wackenhut is a for-profit business they are making from the sorrow of detainees." Two Egyptian restaurateurs, brothers, lament gentrification: "You really killed yourself with the...

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Most of the books depicted in this catalogue that were shown as a traveling exhibition in New England were mass produced artist books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The pages depict sections of maps encircled by a black ink border. The envelope is addressed to John Pyros. The card is an announcent tosubit to a correspondence art project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book showcases the integration of writing, printmaking and design at the press. It focuses on the special features of Philadelphia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book reveals "traces of man" through history from reproductions of cave pictures, languages, mathematics, computer texts and buildings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.