Scope and Contents Mike Schaefer did the abstract silkscreen prints for this book. As mentioned on Horvath's blog, "MOSTLY BROKEN SCABS PRESS 1977 -- 1984: For $10 I bought an old paste ink Gestetner mimeograph from a friend's brother-in-law who owned a used office furniture store and who has subsequently gone insane. The mimeo had a major crack in one of the drums that would prevent the image over the crack from reproducing. With a bunch of duct tape, it worked ok for me. I printed most of the publications in the kitchen of my Clifton Blvd. apartment. The last magazine was called Scratch (like the sound of a tone arm going across a record). In reality, I think the Scratch magazines were about learning to appreciate subtleties and forgiveness. KIRPAN PRESS 1998 -- Present: After not publishing for 13 years, I was pulled out of retirement when I attended a poetry reading at a bookstore in Kent, Ohio. Besides starting to resurrect partial books that had been dormant for 20 years, Dave Pishnery...

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This book chronicles the blizzards of '77 in no particular order. It reprints d.a.levy's poem, "One Death in the Life of Julie." One copy of the book cover is printed on green color stock, the other on blue color stock paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A small abstract painting by da levy is reproduced as a photocopied colored page. A color photograph by Alan Horvath's wife depicts him sleeping with nasal CPAP because of his sleep apnea. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover was designed by Mike Schaefer. The mimeographed pages were originally planned to be part of Sctatch 3 (1981) that was not published. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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An abstract painting by Alan Horvath is reproduced as a photocopied colored page. The theme of the poems in this book is stories of "desperate" workers in an office bureaucracy. The poems are reminiscent of those appearing in the Australian magazine "924." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book reprints poems by Lowell, levy, rjs, Cook, and Taylor. In addition, there are reproductions of unpublished paintings by Levy and collages by rjs. Unpublished poems by Taylor and Kryss are also printed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book reprints "The Cleveland Manifesto of Poetry" (1964). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This collection depicts a detail of a d.a.levy painting, "Non-Sectarian Crucifiction," that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.