Scope and Contents Mac Low explains the compostion of these poems. ""Asymmetries" are nonstanzaic chance-generated poems of which the printed formats are notations for solo or group' performance. They are "asymmetrical" in that they have no regularly repeating stanzaic or other patterns. They are "notations" in that most aspects of their format can be translated into aspects of performance. Notably, the lengths of blank space before, between, & after single words or word strings, & between lines, stand for "temporal holes" -- durations in which readers keep silent or produce single prolonged tones on instruments that can sustain tones evenly (e.g., winds; bowed strings; reed, pipe, & electronic organs; & other electronic & mechanical sound producers). To measure these blanks, each poem page is conceived as a rectangle of which the horizontal sides are the top & bottom lines of words and the vertical sides are imaginary margin lines running parallelly thru the rightmost and...

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This catalogue lists books of the 20th century international avant gaerde. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Printed by Wesley Tanner as a gift from Moe's Books for the New Year. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The illustrations in this book deal with Depero's work for Campari. In the introduction by Verdicchio, he quotes Depero on advertising and art, "all art of the past centuries is marked bythe scope of advertising: exultation of war, of religion: documentation of facts, ceremonies and characters in their victories, in their symbols, within their gades of command and if splendour...even today we have the captains who face powerful enterprises for the valorization of their battles, of their campaigns for their own products and projects." This book also contains a manifesto on advertising which begins, 'the art of the future will tend stongly toward advertising." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue reproduces several Parole in Liberta. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This collection was acquired by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Giglo, born in 1897, was known as Jamar 14, a second generation Futurist artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The words of this poem mimic the sound of crickets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a translation of "Lyric of a Watermelon Tin Book" that was held by the Sackner Archive and then sold at auction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book reproduces an extensive number of Futurist poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Announces the first complete edition of reprints of Futurist Manifestos. A letter picture, sound poem by Fortunato Depero is the center of the poster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The illustrations depict covers of Futurist books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.