The cover and title page depict a poem shaped like bars in a prison cell with the repeated words LA NUIT and the words "du prisonnier" in the middle. The book includes a reproduction of a Valentiner Hugo black and white portrait of Guy Levis-Mano. The name "Jean Garamond" printed on the cover as responsible for the images is a non-de-plume for Guy Levis-Mano. This one of 40 copies of the book is printed on Holland paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Miranda Maher composed the drawings and Barbara Henning wrote the text. The prose is diaristic with found text from the author's imagination and bits and pieces of material discovered by her. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a feminist book in which the author describes madwomen, murderous madwomen, and murderesses using press quotations, drawings amd photographic reproductions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book summarizes questionaires in the mail sent by the author asking for 10 dates which the respondent thought signified their being "penetrated by our culture." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book is punctured in its center with a hole to simulate that is a round circle that toward the end of the book becomes raged as a simulation of a bullet hole. Each page contains an identical landscape with the bullet hole placed above the horizon. At the bottom of each page are the different coordinates, e.g. 51o 21'N x 12o 25'E, that symbolize the location where violence took place. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book lists women's names in alphabetical order according to day and time on a daily basis over a year to symbolize the average annual estimate of reported forcible rapes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Doris Boris was an Austrian pop singer who moved to San Francisco to assume a neo-expressionist painterly career. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The author indicated that the "book" is a translucent envelope containing six "certificates" with texts addressing: Surveillance & Knowledge, Surveillance & Purity, Surveillance & Reciprocity, Surveillance & Glamour, and Surveillance & Absurdity. In between the certificates are the SurVeils - masks of onionskin paper with different life-sized images of closed eyes with little eye-holes: To hide your open eyes and aid in "surveilling your surveillors." To reinforce the deception, at the bottom of each veil is rubberstamped "my eyes are closed." Adhesive dots can be attached to the eyes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The two loose sheets describe undesirable side-effects of capitalism and a site list of watchdogs and gadflies. The currency consists of five photocopied 20 dollar bills, realistically reproduced on the recto and containing environmentally incorrect sites on the verso, e.g., Mexico strip mining, Rewanda genocide, Burma forced labor, Brazil deforestation, and Los Angeles toxic ghettos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book is the editioned version of Maher's original bookwork "100 Coordinates of Violence" which is held by in the Sackner Archive. It was published to coincide with an installation at Kunstbuncker in Nurnberg, Germany. The original book consisted of pages shot through by bullets. Now the 1000 coordinates that symbolize the location where violence took place are listed on each page. An afterward lists several pages of "better informed, better organized and more selflessly dedicated curmudgeons... to fuel your own investigations." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Unable to find biography of this poet on internet. This is a copy from the ordinary edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a deluxe copy printed on velin du Marais paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.