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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 book is dedicated to "the memory of the uncountable codices burned by Friar Diego de Landa, in Mani, Yucatan in June 1562, as a part of a series of autos-da-fe carried out under his orders." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the last page is a poem in which each line has a different color. It reads THE GRAVE COLOURS OF EARTH - BRIGHTEN TOWARD - AN - OPEN BOOK - OF - LIGHT UNSTAINED - BY - WORD. The Sackners visited Gray in September 2004 and saw this poem as a wall embroidery (done by a friend) hanging on a wall in his library. Both the cover of the book and the dust jacket were designed by Gray. -- 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 a purely textural work in two colors, each letter of the words alternates as green or blue. This serves as a metaphor for the contrast of liberty and death in the French revolution. -- 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.

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The first copy was acquired in 1991; a second copy with slightly different color registrations and higher prices published in 2007 is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The first copy was acquired in 1991 and held by the Sackner Archive; this second copy with slightly different color registrations and higher prices was published in 2007. -- 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 black text is set in various colored shapes and patterns. -- 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.