This book promotes the products of the Sandoz pharmaceutical company with picture and visual poetic means. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work is presented as a narrative text with color coding of the rubberstamped words, paragraph by paragraph, to indicate place or characteristics of activity of author. In this respect, the idea is similar to Anne Noel's drawing series of colored text, "Conflux," which is held by the Sackner Archive. Curnoe was killed by an automobile while riding his motorcycle at age 55 years in June 1993. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The loose sheet indicates that the original version of this poem was done in 1971 as a screen print. The name of the little drummer boy, Viala as in this poem or Bara?, who when ordered to call "Vive le Roi," called "Vive la Republique." The painting of this moment was done by Jean-Louis David (1794) but Finlay has used an image of a sailing ship with the name, Little Drummer Boy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This copy is missing the photocopied loose sheet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Hoofdletters are discussed in Eye Vol.12 No.47. This book contains the supplement published in 1960. The basic premise of the printing process advocated in this book is to save paper. This is accomplished by using solely capital letters, decreasing type size for punctuation marks, decreasing type size and space between lines, inverting alternating lines of text for reading upon reversing top and bottom of page and using overprinting in colors that can be filtered out with colored eyeglasses. The ease of reading is promoted on the compact pages by means of acetate pages with white silkscreened bars to enable viewing in the clear areas only. Several examples are provided in this book. In addition, the printing methods are used to reduce the pages in Jules Verne's Dr. Ox. One booklet has the usual uppercase and lowercase letters, the other two examples of the new printing methods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This drawing on white paper with run-on linear written letterforms achieves a geometric image through changes in the color of the inks used to generate the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Cutts lists the sources for the minimalist, colored, poems in this book, e.g., from Alan Halsey's catalogue, perhaps from Boudin, untraceable quotation from Stephane Mallarme, etc. For example, one poem reads, "the only texts I ever - wrote were the titles." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This piece was inspired by a question about a hat asked by Richard Kostelanetz to Jackson Mac Low. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The colored text outlines a brandy glass. As the liquor level decreases, the empty part appears in green. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is preparatory print with multiple colored letters on white background for the subsequent smaller dimensioned poster poem which was printed on heavier paper by Tarasque Press with glowing red letters on a light blue background. The latter had optical image characteristics whereas this version does not. The Sackner Archive holds several works by Ann Stevenson under another name, Ann Noel. She is the widow of Emmett Williams. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Also designated Affiche No.72. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

This is an example of highly stylized calligraphy with recognizable number "4" in text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is an example of highly stylized calligraphy with number "7" recognizable in text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.