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This exhibition was curated by John M. Bennett who organized the event and edited the catalogue. The exhibition featured the work of William S. Burroughs with most of the material lent by Robert Jackson, a Cleveland book collector. The story of the purchase of the Burroughs material by Robert Jackson from Roberto Altmann is told in the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Dan Jaffe was the editor and publisher of this book and wrote to the Sackners "It's with pleasure that I remember my visit to your home and your cordiality.... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue includes particularly good examples of typewritten concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue Includes concrete poetic broadsides by Ivy Sky Rutzky, "Blade Rein," and several by Haig & Regina Shekerjian that were acquired as seperate items by the Sackner Archive. Ann Noel [Williams] contributed a positive/negative reversal of the characteristics of letters poem, recto-verso, in a style after another example held by the Sackner Archive which begins, "After you have selected..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dana Atchley's "Notebook 1," an Assembling, was published in March 1970 about the same time as Assembling No.1. Ed Ruscha contributed a piece entitled, "Chocolate" that consists of the word "Chocolate" printed on one page and a hand applied chocolate smear on the following sheet. This is the first periodical to utilize the term, "Assembling." Contemporary Assembling magazines arouse from the topology of correspondence art. As common reference points for its geographically dispersed participants, they functioned as alternative spaces for exhibiting work, places where invitations for projects could be broadcast and coupled with the growing practice of listing contributor's addresses, initiators of community building. Equally important, they provided correspondence art with an image of itself, a momentary snapshot that illuminated the scope and breadth of its activities. Self-published in small print runs, utilizing available print technologies, these periodicals were distributed...

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The Sackner Archive has two signed copies of this book, one in a series of 25 as in this copy and the other out of series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Three rows of one or two words with suggestive sexual content are printed with varied typefaces on each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive holds another copy of this book that is unsigned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each page depicts a progressively increasing horizontal row of letters of the alphabet, e.g., A, ABB, ABBCCC, etc. to form a pyramid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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CPGraham is Coutney Peter Graham who wrote imi, an experimental novel held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.