The handwritten page in this limited edition is a manuscript page. The folded sheet is an announcement for a reading. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Nettelbeck intersperses his own poetry with selections using the cut-up technique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Nettelbeck intersperses his own poetry with selections using the cut-up technique. Nettelbeck has drawn in red ink a simple autoportrait on the colophon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The wrapper is printed with the title Four MInutes to Midnight and the subtitle Print///Typography///Poetics. Sophie Jodoin illustrated these books. These two final books written by Nettelbeck were published in December 2010 and he died in January 2011. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a highly erotic poem dedicated to Nettelbeck's lover, Marta. It was published in part in Alcatraz No.1, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In a poem entitled "Philip Whalen Memorial .357," Nettelbeck mentions Marvin Sackner indirectly as "his one saint patron." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The ink line drawing of Nettelbeck's self-portrait is on the title page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.