Scope and Contents This poem was included in several Fluxus boxes. There is no reference to Emmett Williams as an author of the scroll. AbeBooks: Printed scroll of 3 conjoined sheets of buff-colored laid stock, rolled as issued. 2217 x 58 mm. (ca. 87 1/4 x 2 3/8 inches). A fine copy. "A Fluxus printing of "abcedfghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz,' also called "Alphabet Poem,' was usually included in "Fluxus 1" and "Fluxkit.' This work was first published by Verlag Kalender, the publishing house of Bernd Ebeling and Hansjoachim Dietrich, Wuppertal, West Germany, ca. 1961. They also published "Kalender Rolle,' a survey of avant-garde art in 1961 and again in 1962. Printed on a long scroll, their form influenced several Fluxus publications, such as "Fluxus Preview Review'" (Jon Hendricks, in Fluxus Codex). Williams' "An Opera' was issued in the same format, and distributed in the same way. Only the alphabet poem itself appears on the scroll; there is no credit to Williams, nor any publication information. -- Source...

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There is an unsigned version of this print with smaller borders listed as an issue of Mercado Del Sale, September 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The overlaid pages give a visual almost-surreal image. Four of the overlaid pages have been taken from the book for scanning and inclusion into the Sackners' "Art of Typewriting" book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The images within this book are listed on a separate document. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A styrofoam print documents the blind, difficult to read text set in concrete poetic imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated Object Series No.1. This represents the uncut version of the usual, leaflet format. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The first section of this long poem was originally released as ARK, The Foundations 1-33, North Point Press, 1980. Johnson died in 1998 and his obituary, printed in the New York Times, is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.