These drawings were made on pages 12 & 5, and pages 28 & 21 of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings and marginalia that Macia has incorporated into his new images. Macia related that he was inspired to make these drawings after visiting the Sackner Archive and viewing Tom Phillips' A Humument. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each "page" of this book is a round rubber gasket upon which the artist has printed statements beginning with O, e.g. O MY, OOO LA LA, OH WELL. The book is "bound" with a macrame strip. The title also refers to the well-known, erotic French novel with the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Pages of the book are sealed together. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The theme of this book deals with women's lips, eyes, and vagina. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The pages of this book are rolled on a wooden rod and held in place by a malleable lead sheet stamped with the title, "Tomzack." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a fragment of a telephone book that Sit (1917-1987) has torn in a progression such that the narrowest page occurs at the beginning, the widest pages toward the middle, and the torn pages narrow at the end. It is reminiscent of the torn pages, artist books by Buzz Spector and Scott McCarney but Sit tears the pages more crudely. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This a sketch and idea book that features more handwritten ideas. A sketch for the sculpture, Air Accordion, that was commissioned for the The Beauty in Breathing 1992 exhibition, appears on page 175. An image of two rubberstamped rabbits recurs on several pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book was designed, printed and handbound by Johnson. The illustrations, based on the original style of Thomas Tenniel, the original illustrator of Alice in Wonderland, were recreated by Yvonne van Rietschoten. The letters were written by Lewis Carroll a.k.a. C.L. Dodgson and printed with a computor by the author. Twenty-six letters were chosen addressed to 26 people in alphabetical order of their first name. Each letter of the alphabet with an illustration is printed on the outside of each envelope page. This book was awarded the Bienes Book prize at the Broward County public library. Marvin Sackner served as one of three jurors in this selection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition was created utilizing a trade edition book as a support structure. Barron composed poems and utilized poems from other poets along with found text. She placed them in the layers of the book, e.g.,"Twisting silence into words, my shrouded shadow sucked deep of a breath of emptiness, to shriek into its own ear," (S.B.) "what have you done to the garden that was entrusted to you?" (A. Machado) and "Breathe in a mouthful of dust..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was done to commemorate the death of Bob Kaufmann, a fellow communist poet who lived in the North Beach section of San Francisco and was a good friend of Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Herve Dupont, a master French glass artist, made the binding for this conventional poetry booklet. It consists of two, colored, heavy glass panels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Albert Dupont organized this book project for his son Ben's class. Each student, the teachers and Dupont contributed a line drawing portrait of themselves, designed so that each individual held the hand of the preceeding and following person. The title means "A Lot of Children." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The source text is Update Proceedings, a symposium, held by Key Pharmaceuticals on their respiratory drug, "Theodur." One of three copies, all slightly different, were commissioned by Sackner. The other two were given as gifts to officers of the company. The book serves as a support onto which Broaddus placed his visual imagery with minimal attention directed to uncovering new verbal messages in the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Lehrer indicates that Versations is made up of sounds in a space that can have personal meaning to the reader, or can be used as a score or script for a performance of characters listed at the top of each page. "Time moves from top to bottom. The performance progresses one page at a time. Notations that occur on the same horizontal line are performed simultaneously. Line lengths are determined by breath breaks as in verse but the reading as in conversation is generally fluid. Most speeches have typographic indicators for particular emphasis, volume, or emotion. Some chacters on the othe hand ar more monochromatic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.