This poem by Hirschman describes the life and contributions of Lawrence Ferlingetti, the founder of City Lights Bookstore on his 91st year. Ferlinghetti contributed a illustrative self-portrait and Johnny Brewton did the design and letterpress. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem by Hirschman describes the life and contributions of Lawrence Ferlingetti, the founder of City Lights Bookstore on his 91st year. Ferlinghetti contributed a illustrative self-portrait and Johnny Brewton did the design and letterpress. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The words of Martin Luther King in this poem relate to the first bombing of the Gulf War on the same day as King's birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor and china ink with a fine sable brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is an affectionate love poem with abstract painted embellishments in a book object that is an unfolding construction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Poem in homage to the homeless advocate, Mitch Snyder, who had recently committed suicide, and the sweep of the homeless from Civic Center in San Francisco. As Hirschman states, this is an ongoing struggle, i.e., a half-mast flag hangs at City Hall (ironically and hypocritically) and thus his symbolic allusion at the poem's ending. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The work is intended as an admonition to smokers in the form of a work of art. The haiku is repeated for both sexes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Hirschman contrasts the narrow demands of government with the freedom of making art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book consists of erotic stories from a magazine with the same title written during Victorian England. An introductory essay was written by Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Book consists of Hirschman's translation of a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The last lines of the poem are on the covers; the inside pages are intentionally illegiblized to reflect the trashing of the flag, part of the poem itself. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush and added figurative images in acrylic paint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.