Jack Hirschman translated two of the poems in this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A response to the audience's response to Nelson Mandela's visit to the Oakland Coliseum after his release from prison in South Africa. The colors utilized in the visual presentation are those of the A.N.C. flag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes poem relating to Marvin Sackner (page 73), "I Steal" that begins with the following passage: Scavaging's the way I make my buck. Pick my way thru the garbage of the rich for cardboard, fabric-sampler folders, odd papers, plastics. Paint over them. Send them to a man who collects things like that. Just enough to pay for my hotel pad. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Jod is an Albanian word for iodine. It was done in response to the exodus of Jews and Greeks from Albania. The word Jod is a play on the word Yod but mainly Hirschman states that he is experimenting with alphabetical and numerical forms related to the Kabbalah and thinking of Wally Berman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Jack Hirschman contriburtes an introductory essay describing Glik's poems and songs as personifying the creed of Partisans against Nazism particularly in Vilna , Lithuania. "When the news of the Waqrsaw Ghetto uprising reached the Vilna ghetto, it inspired Hirsh to write his famous song-poem "Zog Nit Keynmor (Don't Ever Say)"... In a short time and with amazing speed, Hirsh Glik's song became the anthem of the Resistance: It swept through the ghettos and camps and became known as "the Song of the Partisans." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

According to Hirschman in a letter to the Sackners, the title is a combination of Soviet and Dissidents. The works are put together in the same book-box.These drawinngs are of the very essence of the influence of the artists of revolutionary Russia. The title is meant to be humorous as these pieces and the box were conceived in relation, or rather in synchronous time with the goodwill games in Moscow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was edited by Raffaela Marzano and Sergio Iagulli. The latter contributed one introductory essay and David Meltzer the other. These long poems describing the 'hidden" encompass a period of 1972 to 2006. They began from Hirschman's reading of a work allegedly written by le Comte de St. Germain, a noted mystical personage whose legend is that since the 18th century he reppears ever young even to this day. The word "arcane" is derived from the Latin word Arcanum which means a place where occult or esoteric books or objects are preserved. The forms of the Arcanes are developed from sudden flashes of thoughts to a phrase or event to manifest the inner voices that Hirschman hears. A drawing by Hirschman accompanies 100 copies of this book (Sackner Archive copy). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was done to commemorate the death of Bob Kaufmann, a fellow communist poet who lived in the North Beach section of San Francisco and was a good friend of Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This drawing from the book "Yod" is an example of the Kabbalistic period of Hirschman's work in which the poet combined Hebrew letters within his poetry. Yod is the letter Y and also means hand in Hebrew. This drawing is a facsimile of the illustration in the book that was designed by Paul Vaughn and Pip Benveniste. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is an example of the Kabbalistic period of Hirschman's work in which the poet combined Hebrew letters within his poetry. Yod is the letter Y and also means hand in Hebrew. The book was designed by Paul Vaughn and Pip Benveniste as a facsimile of Hirschman's manuscript. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.