This book reviews international small press publications of alternative art with emphasis on visual/verbal imagery from 1968-1988. The bibliography includes a listing of the Sackner Archive catalogue and is divided into 1) art/poetry movements, e.g. Fluxus, Conceptual Art, Concrete and Visual Poetry, Mail Art, Artistic Rubberstamps, Xerox Art, etc. as well as 2) listing periodicals by alphabetical order and country of publication. Perneczky also lists Art Archives holding such materials. It is noteworthy that the publication of this book was supported by the George Soros Foundation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The imagery depicts semi-abstract tortured figures perhaps relating to Phillips' college examination days at Oxford. The poem reads "an experience ago and a feeling ago - of vanity, no vain rose had more to say than the little arty graces im the halls of the foreboding." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This entire page is collaged with engraved paper.The text reads, "His yesterday met his eyes. - All life ; and his own life. Film memories - still the fugitive thrill" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The drawing depicts an abstract musical composition of wavy lines that is framed inside by gray edge and outside by a green edge. The poem reads: "One great wonder in music she knew - she had ears able to hear the palpating mind - she witnessed time echoing - at the end of the past that never came to music;" This poem apparently references Phillips' wife, Fiona Maddox. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This page is collaged in the upper right quadrant with scraps of brown and beige cuttings.The image seems to resemble a seated figure with a large hat framed in a window in a room with windows in the background.The text reads, "more than a couple the shining selves reflect - inner windows repeat the shared morning, - in the photograph, both of them banish change - wagger wang - wagger wang the wind" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This page is divided into two sections.The top section consists of five parallel orange bars and a sixth one composed of organic forms. Abstract creatures are behnid the bars and in the lower section they are revealed without the covering bars.The text reads, "command force one , fall to war - arm as if sombre hope defeated doubt. - in London XII - the wording was curt expect war - the careless twelve. the twelve in Downing Street; postponing excuses" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This page is constructed in a chevron design with engraved collages in the upper center of the page and the lower two corners.The center section is framed in bright green paint.The text reads, "Irma, Irma--I can't ration my comfort weapons - all all eyes with tears in them. pain time - snatched hours of anxiety torture time - Irma, Irma, wretched days strain time - bush anger would spring out at him suddenly, he" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem reads "chance words - merely connect - After inner yielding to the sea. - She sang. - her voice thrilled through liquid music - music to a fathomless libretto - "Let me live my life - no matter how the mountains fall" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The abstract image conveys a bright summer landscape. The text reads, "Autumn arrived and they bought the Mediterranean - and by the square yard summer paintings the rooms were well-ready to receive - even the children recognized les demoiselles - "Allo "allo" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem reads " for photo dismay. - my pillow-book; the puzzled sheets - my pocket-volume bound in reality," This is a tear-out page from the trade edition book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem reads " for photo dismay. - my pillow-book; the puzzled sheets - my pocket-volume bound in reality,"Les Cercles de Fees -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This page consisits of an abstract picture resembling a landscape framed by a darker image.The image does not have a clear relation to the poem which reads,"a secret between me and money - How could I know what I was doing to me ? I had no experience. - In fact when I was furious - he was handsome." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This page consists of red abstact marks upon a blue background with the following rubberstamped randomly arranged words each within a circle. The poem reads "the paper back voices the moment - at a word the moment He stamped, he stamped the moment - jeal is the wrong word. - so is gure - so is epress." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a mainly an ink hatched drawing that was intended for Ciaran Carson's book of poems, Opera et Cetera, Wake Forest Press, 1996, but not utilized in the printed edition. The text is from A Human Document by Mallock. Carson's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. This small fragament contains the following poem: "monsieur art sage monsieur h - dix-huit luding I heard him claim our name - ch - hc - reve omph enderi St ! - tribute to h - ink beau-payin you with his tongue wit." The protagonist in this poem, H C, is Henri Chopin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text reads "death? - is this not the sunshine? - lacing, playing a vagrant quesion- to elbow aside his own death - soon a sick shadow passed the air - elbow the probability." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The prints have been removed from the folder and placed in a mat, two to a mat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A portrait of a woman is set in a circle and is framed in the colored stripes similar to those that Phillips painted in earlier works. The text reads, "home, ridiculous, - thought ridiculous - here was a woman - a vision beyond the pale of shy ideas - sonry blic adula derstan ked." The last bubble on the page consists of nonsense words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this page Phillips re-introduces the heroine of A Humument, Irma, in a setting reminiscent of the metal entrance gates that Phillips designed for the park in his neighborhood of Peckham. The text reads "on the street iron railings twist into twilight - Lamps are gilding round corners - to meet somebody - 'Somebody - Yes! Irma, - her love - her light her mood of mind - her movement and her voice. - changed my condition tinged all my dreams." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The print depicts ornamental colored markings surounding a black and white photographic portrait of a child in the center. The poem reads "face to face with this moment - a sudden child - Irma already - art by way of Vienna - to Vienna where the orient would reach art - came like a cloud - let me accept its reflections." According to a communication from Phillips, this artist proof is the only print of the edition to have added gold leaf additions; the other prints in the edition have gold ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem reads, "Her man - free and tender days of Poetry - pay day of happiness; and love - Tickets ready - for Liverpool and expectancy - the glimmering shores of yesterday receding." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.