Written in homage to a dead friend, Emil de Antonio, an avant garde film maker who was also a press agent for Stella and Warhol in their early days. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Wikipedia: Munakata is a Japanese city located in Fukuoka Prefecture, in the north Chikuzen region of the prefecture. The city was founded on April 1, 1981. As of April 1, 2008, the city has an estimated population of 94,660 and a population density of 791 persons per km 2. It is off the coast of China -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Hirschman relates in a letter to the Sackners of September, 1989: "[Runebows] is a 'confluence' of 'plays' (A) the post-Finnegans Wake language; (B) the Oriental calligraphy; and (C) the masks of human configurations....I was simply -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is an extremely dense visual piece to express Hirschman's love of the gesture in his last bookwork commissioned by the Sackner Archive. A poem written about an Afro-American friend as text is obscured by overpainting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.