This is Carl Andre's first one man show in a musem and his first catalogue. Johannes Cladders wrote the German text for the book object. All the English texts are in Andre's own handwriting and appear to be printed offset though another process might have been used. On the folder cover, Andre writes, "A man climbs a mountain because it is there. A man makes a work of art because it is not there." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

BALL WEB 2014: Canadian painter's memoir based on her journals. Caruso writes with insight about the experience of making and exhibiting her paintings, drawings and prints. Among th e many artists appearing in this memoir are painters Carol Martyn, Milly Ristvedt, David Bolduc, Jim Gordaneer, Roy Kiyooka, Greg Curnoe and French painter Claude Yvel; sculptors Robert Downing and Henry Saxe; art dealers David Mirvish, Alkis Klonar idis, Carmen Lamanna, Julianne and Stephen Gadatsy, Jack Pollock, Lynne Wynick and Dave Tuck; and among poets, Nelson Ball, Victor Coleman, bpNichol, Bill Hawkins, David Rosenberg, Michael Ondaatje and David McFadden. Weed Flower Press, Coach House Press and Caruso's Seripress also appear. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

BALL WEB 2014: Canadian painter's memoir based on her journals. Caruso writes with insight about the experience of making and exhibiting her paintings, drawings and prints. Among th e many artists appearing in this memoir are painters Carol Martyn, Milly Ristvedt, David Bolduc, Jim Gordaneer, Harold Klunder, Greg Curnoe and Claude Breeze; media artist Vera Frenkel; sculptors Peter Kolisnyk and Henry Saxe; art dealers Alkis Klon aridis, Julianne and Stephen Gadatsy and Jack Pollock; and among poets, Douglas Barbour, Doug Fetherling, Nelson Ball, bpNichol, Steve McCaffery, David Aylward, Mike Doyle, P.K. Page and Stephen Scobie. Caruso also writes about her literary small pr ess Seripress. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Chopin mentions the death of his wife, Jean in 1985 "when everything stopped." Also, he adds a visit to Miami in 1985 (gave a performance at the Sackners that is not cited in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The illustrations feature Spatola's classic fractured, constructivistic letter pictures including an original collage held by the Sacknar Archive, ["Red, White, & Black Overlying fremes with Text."] -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Edited by Henry Martin. "This Sentence is Weightless," a multiple held by the Sackner Archive is reproduced on page 60. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover photo is Wallace Berman's Portrait of Jay De Feo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Soroka presents his biography and a reprint "Visual Poetry in Ukrainian Literature," from the Ukrainian Review, 1998, Vol.45, No.1. There are also examples from early Ukrainian and European visual poetry and the recent works of Soroka. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In his essay, Karl Young describes d.a. levy in his any facets e.g. spiritual poet, warrior against repression and conformity, quiet scribe and nihilist non-conformer. This web site for levy notes that the only existing critical text published about his life and works is Ingrid Swanberg's "Zen Concrete and etc." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Joni Mabe designed the cover and had several drawings reproduced in this book.The book and card from Greil Marcus to the Sackners reflects the gratitude of Marcus to the Sackners for making a connection between Mabe and him. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a short, autobiographical story about the author's friend and the trail of deaths by suicide of this friend and acquaintances. The cover designed by John Furse depicts a concrete poetic image of RIP. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Guy de Cointet was born in Paris in 1934 and died in Los Angeles in 1983. Note that the drawing (1978) on page 64 is in the same style and dimensions as the Sackner Archive held drawing, Ut To Be Realized (1977). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Several page of this book reproduce published and unpublished concrete and visual poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

More than an album of photographs, more than an iconographic summation, this book is a new-style critical essay of the life of a writer, his works and his genius. It is like a film of an intellectual adventure showing the many faces of the writer, his gestures, memories of words and places, long friendships, and pages of his novels, scenes of his film making. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.