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The poem, on folded white paper shaped like an arrow, contains the message printed in red, "Beat the Reds with the White Wedge: Correspond!" This slogan has been modified from El Lissitzky's revolutionary poster, "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge." It refers to an appeal to write in his support regarding his contemporaneous tax dispute. It does not appear to be referenced in the Finlay bibliographies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image is adapted from "A Handbook of Sailing Barges" by E.S. Cooper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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El Lissitzky describes his theatrical plans for "The Electrical-Mechanical Spectacle." It was published as a folio of ten colored lithographs which were used by Mayakovsky in "For Reading Out Loud." The Spectacle used the music from "Victory Over the Sun" by Krutchyck with sets by Malevich. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The curve lines and jagged bars images on a dark green background that Finlay has drawn related to Wordsworth and Longfellow, respectively are difficult to interpret and probably not biographical in nature as follows below. According to to Roberto Rabe (internet), "probably the best loved of American poets the world over is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Many of his lines are as familiar to us as rhymes from Mother Goose or the words of nursery songs learned in early childhood. Like these rhymes and melodies, they remain in the memory and accompany us through life. There are two reasons for the popularity and significance of Longfellow's poetry. First, he had the gift of easy rhyme. He wrote poetry as a bird sings, with natural grace and melody. Read or heard once or twice, his rhyme and meters cling to the mind long after the sense may be forgotten." According to The Literature Network (internet), William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet, credited with ushering in the English...