The installation of Alison Knowles' "A Finger Book" is announced. The Sackner Archive holds another version of this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text and sounds derive from time spent in New Mexico and Alberta, Canada, a span of several years. Frijoles Canyon is the name of the site where the recordings were made in New Mexico. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Higgins related at a symposium on Portuguese concrete and visual poetry at Yale University, New Haven, CT, that the name "Great Bear" originated from the name of a water cooler at Something Else Press - wanted pamphlets to refreshing just like the water from the Great Bear water cooler. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text consists of Knowles' radio plays. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title of this book as described by Dick Higgins refers to the four authors of this book who are each identified in the introductions pages to their section by a suite of playing cards, e.g., clubs, hearts, diamonds and spades. Thus, what they have in common is that 1) each is essentially not operating in a media for which they were trained, 2) each is really operating in a medium or mode of activity of their own devising, which 3) lies somewhere between the conventional concept of the seven arts. The name Ben Patterson is used in this citation rather than Benjamin Patterson since all other references in this database refer to Ben not Benjamin Patterson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.