This second edition has been extensively revised as to additional calligraphic content. Scherstjanoi has made a small drawing of lips near the inscription page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Internet: Valeri Scherstjanoi (b. 1950) -- poet, sound-performer, graphic artist-scribentist. Author of a number of poetry books, and since 1983 he has been writing theoretical texts (original poet's theory and practice of Ars Scribendi) and articles on the history of the Russian futurism in magazines, collections, literary miscellanies and anthologies. From 1994 to 1998 he was the art director of the International festival "bobeobi" (Berlin). In 1998 he published an anthology of sound poetry: Tango mit Kuehen. Anthologie der russischen Lautpoesie des 20. Jahrhunderts, where in the printed form he united and commented on the works of the Russian poets of the beginning of the century. He is acting as a free author of experimental radio performances, and also as a sound-performer, as a scribentist in the field of graphic art -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The earliest work in this sampling of Segay's visual poems is dated 1973 and the latest 1997. Most pages of the soft cover book consist of black paper with stylized cut out letters that form a text which is collaged to the white pages. One collage in the book was done as a collaboration among Segay, Nikonova, and Scherstjanoi. The material is enclosed within a handmade portfolio, held together by thick black laces with gold foil at the tips. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.