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Depicts a reproduction of Finlay's silkscreen poster/poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image contains a collaged bulls-eye board with colored pyramids on each side.This work was exhibited in one of pete spence's corrrespondence art shows. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The stiff papercard is folded to permit the two columns of poetry to stand up. The poem describes Finlay's impressions of Malevich's suprematist paintings in terse terms. Another copy is stored in a Finlay box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In a personal letter to the Sackners, Belsey stated that he was disappointed with the presentation of the first edition and more pleased by the second edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In a personal letter to the Sackners, Belsey stated that he was disappointed with the presentation of the first edition and more pleased by the second edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This poem is included in Finlay's Headlines:Eavelines but this drawing has a totally different layout than the print included in the portfolio. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawings consist of the same phrase appears with slightly different calligraphic styles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The suite of 26 collages with the first title [Paste Book Number One] are stored in a single folder. Linda Bandt was Wally Depew's wife. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the second edition of poems that were composed from January to July 1953 and first published in Noigandres 2, 1955, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. The colored text of these poems has its origins in the musical melodies of Anton Webern. The images accompanying this record include three scans of the originals from 1953 donated to the Sackner Archive by Augusto De Campos and three offset prints from this 2nd edition of poetamenos as well as two reproduced poems in Emmett Williams' "Antholology of Concrete Poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print is Roth's typographical riff on C. Day Lewis' poem "Reflections." It was one of a series of seven designs commisioned by the Plastics Division of ICI to demonstrate the potentialities of stamping foils in graphic design. Other designers include Alan Fletcher, Jean-Michel Folon, Norman Ives, Pieter Brattinger and Armin Hofmann. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work was presumably for a unique piece. The seven drawings were mounted on one sheet of paper and the two drawings on another sheet of paper. They consist of slightly different calligraphic styles for these two words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The print on translucent paper lists a circular stream of words, printed in different colors, that relate to celestial bodies. These float over the second print that depicts a large silver globe with latitude and longitude lines. Disintegrating silver capital "V's and other letterforms on the outer border of the globe provide an visual effect that it is spinning. The printing on this work is unusually sophisticated and might have been done in collaboration with A. Doyle Moore, a master printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This work is a masterpiece of poetic embroidery with varied styles for the lettering. The phrases read as follows: 1) lifedeath, 2) heebiejeebies, 3) snuffflick, 4) zigzag, 5) duckyducky, 6) deadend, 7) gangplank, 8) zebrazebra, 9) lushlush, 10) be all end all, 11) finiteinfinite, 12) cockeyed & cuckoo, 13) homesick 14) BAH HUMBUG, 15) fuckyfucky, 16) 2010, 17) mamapapbaba, 18) zerozero, 19) hooplahoopla, 20) toom tchoop poom, 21) i cant sell it, 22) perky & chirpy, 23) sporty & forty, 24) holdminehand, 25) hubbahubba, 26) doublewide, 27) eyeball, 28) ojo por ojo, 29) davey crockett ma kettle, 30) i stand corrected, 31) wow, 32) gee, 33) holy cow, 34) la la, 35) dirty dip, 36) dog paddle, 37) sawbuck, 38) juicehead, 39) gummer, 40) gibberish, 41) invisible ink, 42) hotrod, 43) snap hold kick, 44) 2 sides, 45) sing, 46) alfalfa, 47) rhododenron, 48) i, and 49) croak. Sloy wrote to the Sackners: it took a long time to make. 'lifedeath' was embroidered in 2000. 'croak' was...

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

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The text is stenciled and colored and is placed at random in this folded drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The original title is "The Triumphal Procession of White Clouds Moving Upstream" and calls to mind his Neo Fauve poem from 'Flags From A Remnant Railway' of 1975. It was first printed as a letterpress postcard on the tredle platten press at The Trent Bookshop in 1969. It was subsequently reprinted in The Sea is Silent by Coracle 1991, amongst other places. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.