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Composed for Hamady's wife's 28th birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The components of this work consist of horizonally placed varied colored words and fragments of words printed in capital letters of varied font sizes. The collaged tube extends from the collaged wooden base by means of a collaged nail and heavy plastic filament. The verso contains four collaged printed papers of reproductions of works by Trinkewitz. One has a hand written text "How to Made Advertising." The second paper is hand lettered "Layout Trinkewitz." The third states "Trinkewitz 63." Also collaged on the verso bottom is a magazine cover onto which Trinkewitz has written "My daughter Barbara." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The components of this work consist of horizonally placed varied colored words and fragments of words printed in capital letters of varied font sizes. The collaged tube extends from the collaged wooden base by means of a collaged nail and heavy plastic filament. The verso contains four collaged printed papers of reproductions of works by Trinkewitz. One has a hand written text "How to Made Advertising." The second paper is hand lettered "Layout Trinkewitz." The third states "Trinkewitz 63." Also collaged on the verso bottom is a magazine cover onto which Trinkewitz has written "My daughter Barbara." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The components of this work consist of horizonally placed black, white, and yellow words and fragments of words printed in capital letters of varied font sizes. The collaged tube extends from the collaged wooden base by means of a collaged nail and heavy plastic filament. The verso contains two labels from a gallery exhibition is Bratislava on 1969. Also, the following handwritten by Trinkewitz: Exposition 1966 Prague (with Jiri Kolar) Galerie Spalova and Exposition Prague Galeria Na Karlove Namesti. Also, a magazine cover onto which Trinkewitz has written "My daughter Barbara." is collaged on the verso. A photographic reproduction appears in Trinkewitz's exhibition catalogue, Zivot Je Kolaz / Das Leben ist eine Collage, 1999. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The components of this work consist of horizonally placed black, white, and yellow words and fragments of words printed in capital letters of varied font sizes. The collaged tube extends from the collaged wooden base by means of a collaged nail and heavy plastic filament. The verso contains two labels from a gallery exhibition is Bratislava on 1969. Also, the following handwritten by Trinkewitz: Exposition 1966 Prague (with Jiri Kolar) Galerie Spalova and Exposition Prague Galeria Na Karlove Namesti. Also, a magazine cover onto which Trinkewitz has written "My daughter Barbara." is collaged on the verso. A photographic reproduction appears in Trinkewitz's exhibition catalogue, Zivot Je Kolaz / Das Leben ist eine Collage, 1999. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem is difficult to read because it is written in three dimensions but appears to state "flat feet." It is also listed as th wrecking balzark No.60 and One Cent Series No.134. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The letters of this poem are set apart and smudged except for the SH of SHIFT to imply motion. The SH is printed together possibly to draw a scatologic inference. This work is also designated hangnail #3 and th wrecking ballzark #20. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Included in Indicatif II portfolio. The print in different typefaces and type dimensions has a pentagonal shape. It is meant to be spun from a spoke placed in its center so as to create a blurred image of the words. The duplicate copy has a center fold. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost for Words" (2011) page 20. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The only copies of this issue are in futura sammelband. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title of the broadside is The Golden Message. Twelve poems using the Spanish word "oro," which means gold, are printed in futura typeface. The letters o, r and o are printed repetitively in different permutations. This work was loaned to the Museum of Modern Art NYC for their exhibition, "Eye on Europe: prints, books & mutiples 1960 to now." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Concrete poems were created from collated headlines. Eight were composed by the art students and five by Finlay. Ann Stevenson who did "Water Wheels in Whirl" is known as Ann Noel and is the wife of Emmett Williams. Work is dedicated to Eve Furnival, and cover of portfolio consists of a grid of identical child-drawn images of Finlay entitled "The Flying Scatsman." In this copy, the title page has a typographic error, viz., Published dy (sic) Openings Press...(this was not observed in another copy formerly held by the Sackner Archive). Ian Hamilton Finlay's "13 evelines," were sent to John Furnival's daughter Eve as postcards on thirteen consecutive days by students in Furnival's Bath Academy of Art class. It was subsequently printed as this portfolio. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Image is made up of a series of interlocking vertical "f's." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text of each page is progressively rotated clockwise to produce an optical effect by the overlap through the transparent cellophane. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This sheet was placed on the wall with adhesive tape as the introduction to the most important exhibition of concrete poetry in its time. Burkhardt's biography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poster was hung in the most important exhibition of concrete poetry in its time. The numbering scheme used to classify the posters is based upon the pages of the exhibition catalogue with the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.