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Auction catalogue. The Sackner Archive purchased a signed, deluxe copy (one of 55 copies) of "Aveux Non Avenus" by Claude Cahun (p220) from this auction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The sentences of this poem are appropriated from the texts of famous authors who are credited on the back of the folder. William Allen: Folded publication with an enigmatic 'punctuation' design, of an exclamation mark, a question mark, a comma and a full stop, printed on the cover in black on white stock; contains four loose leaf sheets slipped inside, printed in a variety of colours on cream stock, with a poem on each page dedicated to one of these grammatical symbols: from each 'mark' the words - plagiarized from various canonical texts - spiral outwards, thereby creating a visual poem of dispersed and fragmentary text. The colophon has been printed on the back of the folding cover, which includes linear transcriptions of each of the poems; such as in "!": 'you're nothing but a pack of cards: Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland /goats and monkeys: Shakespeare, Othello / oh that those lips had language: William Cowper, 'On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture out of Norfolk.' --...

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Edited and annotated by Martin Gardner from the 1896 edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text appears to be short biographies of European poets and artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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John Keys was an American who emigrated to England in the 1960's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The theme of the book is the opera by Stein and Thomson, "Four Saints in Three Acts." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue provides a good description of the issues of 291. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a first draft for a chapter sent to Joan Lyons for inclusion in her book, "Artists' Books." The letter relates to the costs of preparing the manuscript. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalogue. The Sackners purchased two letters by bill bissett at this auction., -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The letters of the text are arranged in a balanced grid without punctuation and are superimposed upon the paintings underneath it the the plexiglas case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text prints (with help from Pagemaker) Molly Bloom's monologue from Ulysses, compressed, with apologies to James Joyce! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of a reprinting of ten essays written for specific occasions that were published between 1981 and 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Charles Cameron writes that these pages are "numbered by hand, with many dsh correx + typesetter's markups for 'the flip side of language' -- looks like it might be dsh's entry for the issue of the Oxford mag ISIS on concrete poetry which I edited, but I don't have a copy for comparison & it's hard to say..." This essay appeared in ISIS No.1507, 1966, a periodical hels by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.