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Edited by Peter Ganick. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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And notes that this work utilized the 4,918 words of the combined vocabulary of Thomas More's Utopia (1616) and Sir Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis (1623). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a digital version of the deluxe handcolored edition of the book published in 1986 (the Sackner Archive does not hold a copy of this version). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Large listing of small press magazines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a collection of concrete poems that are printed one to a page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book includes E.N.T.R.A.N.C.E.D, published in a pamphlet in 2002 and purchased at the Avant Garde Poetry symposium, Ohio State, 2002 by the Sackners. However, this book states that the poem was first published in 2004 in a limited chapbook edition by Xexoxial Editions. The duplicate copy does not contain the E.N.T.R.A.N.C.E. pamphlet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Marvin Sackner wrote the essay for this catalogue, entitled "Introduction to WordSeen Exhibition." To begin, I must declare a conflict of interest in writing this introduction. Such a statement is required when a physician presents a paper to a scientific audience while having ownership in a company or being paid for conducting studies on medical devices or drugs related to his lecture. Since I am a physician and my wife Ruth and I own works by most of the artist/poets in this exhibition, I wish to be in front with this declaration. Nevertheless, I believe that I can be objective in my views since the works in this exhibition must stand visual relevance by attendees to this exhibition regardless of what I say just like medical studies must stand the test of reproducibility by other investigators. I hope you get the point about my opinions on conflict of interest. In this introduction to the exhibition, I shall comment on the differences between concrete and visual poetry as well as...