This volume concentrates on Stein's experimental works many of which were previously unknown. The editor's textual scholarship "demonstrates Stein's constant questioning of the conventions of language, writing, and reading and her stunning subversion of the authority of language." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is an oustanding reference to the artistic times in Paris in the first part of the 20th century. The Sackners' reading of the book prompted them to purchase Stein's "Dix Portraits." The latter is described on pages 323-324. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is an oustanding reference to the artistic times in Paris in the first part of the 20th century. The Sackners' reading of the book prompted them to purchase Stein's "Dix Portraits." The latter is described on pages 323-324. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The catalogue lists John Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, " a work held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this book, Perloff traces the history of modern poetry mainly through such poets as Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Sanuel Beckett, John Ashbery, David Antin and John Cage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Themerson writes a fictionalized version regarding the alleged father of Apollinaire. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.