Betula Pendula refers to Silver Birch. The image on this card is an armored tank camouflaged by netting covered with tree leaves. A sketch of this image is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition, Text as Image: An Homage to Lorenzo Homar and the Reverend Pedro Pietri, was assembled for the El Museo del Bario by Margarita Agiiuilar. Both are Puerto Rican poets, Homar a more conventional printmaker and Pietri a founding member of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is an anthology of Zend's poetry and perhaps an autobiographical introduction to his political philosophy at the book's beginning. The first concrete poems are dated 1968. Some of the conventional poems are composed with amusing wordplay. There is a section of the book that prints "ditto poems," a term coined by Zend in 1970. This type of poetry first published by Emmett Williams in "Sweethearts" features new words made by dropping letters from the title as seen on the following example below (printed as letters line by line under the title.SAINT? - I - Aint - A - Saint, - I - Sit - in - Sin. In 1982, Zend originated "drop poems." Here the letters of the poem drop from the title and the poet can only use each letter of the title once and only in the original order. The reader, on the other hand, has to read each poem twice: first the title (in two lines), then the poem (second line only). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work is a collage of "photographs, diaries, notes, sketches...phantasmagoria, metamorphoses, natural horrors, and prehistoric memories: Last voices of a lost Africa." The works constituted an exhibition in Milan in 1977. There are hundreds of color plates of Beard's diaries and journals made in Africa. The book was recalled by the publisher due to the introduction by Owen Edwards being published without his permission. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The generic letter accompanying this book is directed to a reviewer to read this promotional copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem on the French tricolor flag reads, "Liberty for Some; Equality for Some; Fraternity for Some" rather than "for All." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Image depicts the French Tricolored Flag with inscription, Liberty for some, Equality for some, and Fraternity with some. This epithat refers to the rejection of Finlay's commission by the city of Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image depicts icons of an erect penis formed by a rolled dollar bill and testes by two half dollar coins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Describes a billboard designed by Robbie Canal which read "Artificial Art Official" with a picture of Jesse Helms. It was removed by the company citing questionable taste. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The individuals named in the title fought Finlay's commission for a public work in Paris on the grounds that he was (falsely) anti-semitic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem is a metaphoric description of AIDS. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The installation by Mark Coetzee and Karin Cronje, titled "Enshroud," is described as "the most effective individual installation in terms of semiotic effectiveness and economy...the photographic images...function forcefully in interaction with the text to convey the abuse of power." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.