Designated Studies in Concrete Poetry No.4 and is a reprinting of the lecture delivered by Cobbing at the Text as Figure exhibition in Wolfenbuttel 1987 with the following topics: 1) typewriter dirty clean, 2) typewriter, 3) calligraphy hand writing drawn letters, 4) press-on lettering, 5) press-on letters & other means, 6) mimeo misuse, 7) found materials, 8) more found materials, 9) photo-copying, 10) photo-copier, 11) computer, and 12) back to the beginning. The 69 examples in this book include mostly Cobbing's poems but a few examples of other poets as well. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Designated Studies in Concrete Poetry No.4 and is a reprinting of the lecture delivered by Cobbing at the Text als Figur exhibition in Wolfenbuttel 1987 with the following topics: 1) typewriter dirty clean, 2) typewriter, 3) calligraphy hand writing drawn letters, 4) press-on lettering, 5) press-on letters & other means, 6) mimeo misuse, 7) found materials, 8) more found materials, 9) photo-copying, 10) photo-copier, 11) computer, and 12) back to the beginning. The 69 examples in this book include mostly Cobbing's poems but a few examples of other poets as well. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The names charles (verey?) and eve are presented in various permutations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Image was taken from Kris Kringles...; the original is held by the Sackner Archive. The author is also known as Jennifer Pike. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The author is also known as Jennifer Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This print depicts a photograph of a colored neon sculpture that Kriwet made for the cafeteria of the university. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem is printed as a single line in lower case black type across the center of the brown heavy paper. At its right border, the words, city, and cite are printed vertically at the point that the poem ends with the word, cidade. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

These poems are based upon naval light and flag signaling using the "International Code of Signals (British 1899) ." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work was first published by Ganglia Press in mimeographed form as the Singing Hands Series No.3 in 1966 (held by Sackner Archive). It then was published as a component of bp Nichol's bookwork, "bp" by Coach House press in 1967; this work is also held separately by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work was first published by Ganglia Press in mimeographed form as the Singing Hands Series No.3 in 1966 (held by Sackner Archive). The present work was published as a component of bp Nichol's bookwork, "bp" by Coach House press in 1967. Nichol provided instructions on the back cover for burning this booklet. Another copy was published by fingerprinting inkoperated in 1992 (also held by the Sackner Archive). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scans of two pages from the artist book of the same title.

Girlie poems are works or poems dedicated to 'girls' whose names, at the very least, have fascinated Cobbing. The poems are constructed as permutations, palindromes, and visual scores by overprinting. As noted by Griffiths, the simpler the score, the greater the performance potential because it allows Cobbing wider improvisation. The book reprints a large number of these poems. One copy of this book has an orange color and another a blue color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Richard Truhlar writes "Cobbing uses the writer's tools (typewriter, various duplicating machines, ink, etc.) to explore the word and/or letter as hieroglyph, as phonetic symbol, and as concrete graphic interaction of language image with eye and body rhythms." This volume mainly depicts typewriter poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Daniel f. Bradley composed the six illustrations of letter pictures in this book using letraset. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.