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Poem object consists of bag with cut-up paper text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text on the cloth that is printed in red with varied typefaces, deals with food and cooking. The cloth is folded into the jar. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The photogaphs in this book were obtained from popular magazine cuttings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is Baker's annual Valentine's gift to the Sackner Archive. It is shaped like a heart, trimmed with gold braid and stitched with 3 gold hearts, ribbon and a metal; a horizontal band across had gray stitched calligraphic markings. The text on the folded sheet reads, "A distinguished medal for those brave persons who have fought and were wounded in wars, tsunamis and elections this past year." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Mimi Shapiro created this collage and an accompanying artist book as a poetic and artistic response to the September 11th terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center skyscrapers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The artists are visual poets who gifted this work to the Sackner Archive after a visit to the collection. The cabinet is painted in primary colors and the hand printed texts are paint and ink. the six balls are printed with the names Duchamp, Ball, Marinetti, appolinaire (sic) Campos (sic) and Mallarme. The typed stories relate to Denise's youth and problems with asthma. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The work deals with ship wrecks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Each sign is accompanied by a sheet listing the date of printing, dimensions, material, producer, edition, date of original artwork and notes by the artist. The catalogues contain essays by Alex Selenitsch, Sing Song, and George Alexander, Richard Tipping's Cure for the Common Code. The Sackner Archive is listed as holding Tipping's works. Other, more recent acquisitions have also been placed in this box. This box also has been acquired by MOMA. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Included Contents Catalogues: Hear the Art. The Eagle Gallery, London, Great Britain, 1997. (3-fold A4 catalogue essay, 21 x 29.5 cm) Multiple Pleasures. Thorny Devil Press, Wonji Wonji, Australia. / The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 1996. (5-fold A6 catalogue essay, 10 x 15 cm) ...

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The sculpture consists of two objects: a large wooden pear (poire in French) and four wooden fonts of apostrophe and S mounted as a cube and also painted white. The pear is placed on top of the cube. The title of the work is read as the French word "espoir" meaning "hope" in English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Matthew Abess, a second year undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, poet and scholar, spent the summer of 2006 researching the work of the British poet, Bob Cobbing in the Sackner Archive. In honor of the Sackner's 50th wedding anniversary, Matthew conceived of a poetic interpretation by mining the letters R-U-T-H and M-A-R-V-I-N in Cobbing's bibliographic entries in their original positions on the page and reprocessing the letters on 50 pages on a photocopier so that the letters on the final page are completely obscured and abstract. Metaphorically, the letters take on a new beautiful life and interpretation. Also included are six pages of working notes. The poet's explantion of his process is as follows: Please see below my brief explanation of the piece. It is rather inarticulate, so please feel free to edit as you see fit! Respectfully, Matthew "Symphonic Concrete Cine-Text" Curated by: Ruth & Marvin Sackner Edited by: Matthew Abess, 24.06.2006....

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This annual gift to the Sackner Archive shaped like a tea cup, is filled with two tea bags with labels that read sinceri TEA and integri TEA. The third object is a red stuffed heart with a Jan Baker Text Tiles label. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The jars simulate anatomic specimen containers. The box is entirely collaged both on its outside and inside with texts from an old medical dictionary or compendium of medical terms. This book object was Collins' response to Marvin Sackner's sending her a copy of the exhibition catalogue, "The Beauty in Breathing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each "page" of this book is a round rubber gasket upon which the artist has printed statements beginning with O, e.g. O MY, OOO LA LA, OH WELL. The book is "bound" with a macrame strip. The title also refers to the well-known, erotic French novel with the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a fragment of a telephone book that Sit (1917-1987) has torn in a progression such that the narrowest page occurs at the beginning, the widest pages toward the middle, and the torn pages narrow at the end. It is reminiscent of the torn pages, artist books by Buzz Spector and Scott McCarney but Sit tears the pages more crudely. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ockerse documents television programs by tracing lines directly from the TV screen. Words were selected from the programs by listening. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The spools of thread in a box were mailed to the Sackners as a Christmas gift from Finlay. One spool has blue, the other black thread, serving as a metaphor for clear and stormy weather, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.