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At the end of the printed text, Liberta della Cultura! is printed in a cursive text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents As a conscientious objector to military service in South Africa, Boshoff served a prison term and wrote this political tract in made-up language for security reasons. The single original page of writings is numbered 24. The remainder of the original manuscript (pages 1-23) is held by a South African Bank. The photocopied text of the 23 manuscript pages is unique and done by Boshoff. A single page provides the key to the code writing. The original page is matted and stored in a box with other drawings by Boshoff. From Boshoff "word forms and language shapes," Boshoff writes the following: Although I only began making BANGBOEK in 1978, the idea for the work originated in 1973, when I was 22. In response to a powerful religious call, I angered my parents by aborting my art studies in the final year, and instead became a lay preacher. The South African Defence Force (SADF) made things worse, pulling me in for yet another of the army's compulsory training camps. To my mind the army was...

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Contirbutors each produced ten A4 sheets each sheet relating to one of the ten letters in BERN PORTER... The theme is anti-nuclear war weapons. This oeriodical is stored in Robin Crozier's box. The names on the cover are unfamiliar to the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This announces a book about the American presidential campaign of 1972 that deals with the Nixon victory over McGovern. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover depicts silkscreened portrait of levy and includes a handwritten inscription, "25 [cents] for levy's defense." The tipped-in silkscreen print on the page was probably made by levy. The text admonishes the people of Cleveland for the treatment of levy. According to a letter from Alan Horvath, this is the first version of the book that was subsequently published with a different cover/title page. Further, he indicated that pages were missing from the Sackner copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Front and back covers were drawn by Allen Ginsberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a polemic against Finlay's critics of his books on the staff of the Glasgow Herald. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This prose poem deals with levy resigned to turning himself in to serve his sentence for the obscenity charge. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This letter is about levy's self-pitying, depressive state of mind regarding the events surrounding him such as the Vietnam war and the assult on drugs. levy also castigates Inman for his anti-drug stand. According to the envelope, this letter was mailed March 8, 1967. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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levy asks Bill Wyatt to write a letter to the Cleveland Plain Dealer indicating that levy is a poet not a smut peddler. Jonathan Dworkin mentioned in the letter was levy's defense attorney.The verso of the letter is a photocopied exhibition announcement for a Cleveland artist, Phillip Pekarcik. The verso of the envelope is collaged with the label, "GREETINGS FROM SWAMP ERIE." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The mailing envelope (dated May 12, 1967) to BILL WYATT + chris Torrance has a label on its left upper corner that reads "SMUT DOES NOT MELT IN YOUR HANDS." The recto of the letter to BIll Wyatt closes with "the best Way to fry yr enemies is to pray for their enlightenment." The verso of this letter deals with comments on the Assyrian Kings. levy ends his diatribe as follows. "SHAZAM" - this is turning into one of ed sander's' mongolian cluster fucks! forget the light / im turning on with the "Old ASS"/yrs KHU-ED-OHO GUARDIAN of the royal cisttern/d.a. levy bh -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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levy comments in this letter about the politics of Steve Slavik. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.