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This drawing was made on pages 192 & 177 of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings that Macia has incorporated into a new image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the unbound pages, Tipping provides background notes for each of the concrete poetic prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a copy of Drucker's catalogue essay for the exhibition "Symbols to Stories" at the Centre Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College from the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This drawing was submitted to pete spence for publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The first five pages feature a large heavy black printed "T" surrounded by or incorporated with letters or parts of words printed in black. The large letter completes the word. This is followed by pages that use one large black printed letter on subsequent pages to spell out the title of the book. In turn, these letters are surrounded by or incorporate letters or words printed in black or red ink. The smaller black letters have varied typefaces and dimensions while the red letters are printed with the same uppercase typeface. The typography is a modern day version of the style used by Ilia Zdanevich when in lived in Tiflis, Russia in the teens and twenties. In his books of that time, he printed two letters in a vertical row adjacent to one larger letter repetitively to indicate multiple words. Drucker has written a biography on Iliazd as Zdanevich was known when he migrated to Paris and appears to have been influenced by this distinctive typography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin...

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On the back cover, it is stated that Jukka-Pekka Kervinen is a Finnish writer, composer and visual artist. He is focused to computer-generated forms, creative algorithms and chance. Jukka lives in Puhos, Finland, between two lakes, near the border of Russia, with his wife and two younger children. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that interacting within themselves and with the viewer/reader -- content, vehicle, medium, form and word, within a concept, pull together merging the themes and the means. It is you, the reader-viewer, that completes the work! Since 1977 -- uncountable visual poems, + 25 + small editions of artists' books, 100 + unique sculptural bookworks, a few with collaborators. Marilyn says: "TRANSPIRE TIER SPARE TEAR is made of altered visual poems. They are a merged version of 40 pages, of the hidden center in the artists' bookwork, TIER SPARE TEAR. This work unfolded, was shown in a few places, but the hidden spare visual poetry within was not revealed, not read, and never published. The bookwork's outer structure, the walls, in book format are folded and pressed together and are part of the visual poetry. "Now here are 16 visual poems. All interior pages are altered, some much more than others. Individual pages merge a bit here a bite there;...

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The poems in this book all show a hand with a slip of paper with a concrete poetic image between the thumb index finger, possibly a take on Wallace Berman's Verifax collages. On the back cover, it is stated that Billy Mavreas is a Canadian cartoonist and artist living in Montreal, Quebec, whose mostly silent or wordless comics revolve around the themes of language, sexuality and spirituality. He is the co-founder of Expozine, one of Canada's largest and most well respected small press fairs, as well as the curator and resident-at-large of Monastiraki, a shop and gallery of wonders in Mile End. Mavreas has also been active in the international mail-art network contributing visual poetry and graphics to many projects under the name EHEL. He continues to explore many creative outlets including vocal experimentation, installation and lately has been leading creative roundtable workshops for kids and adults. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Anatol Knotek (www.anatol.cc) is an austrian artist and visual poet. He was born in Vienna, Austria where he still lives and works. Anatol's work has been exhibited internationally and his concrete and visual poems have been published in journals, chapbooks, schoolbooks and anthologies. Anatol says: "In this book I like to show the beauty of single characters in a different way, by creating rotated "character-spaces'." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, it is stated that karl kempton's visual poems have been nationally and internationally published and exhibited since 1974. his work has evolved from typewriter to computer b&w to color and now mixed media with use of a slr digital camera. RUNE series began november 1974. edited and published KALDRON between 1976-1990. coeditor of kaldron, volume two, on-line anthology edition published by karl young http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/kaldron.htm. 12 from RUNE Series and 5 PHOTONS. acknowledgments: books "” RUNE, A SURVEY and 3 CUBED; mag "” ECHO; anthologies "” WRITING TO BE SEEN and THE LAST VISUAL POETRY ANTHOLOGY. web "” logolalia, fundacaove locipedica, skylab, mathematical poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The original work was a 40" x 40" x 40" construction of glass and paint. Each one of the three photographs depicts a different view. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The original work was a 40" x 40" x 40" construction of glass and paint. Each one of the three photographs depicts a different view. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The original work was a 40" x 40" x 40" construction of glass and paint. Each one of the three photographs depicts a different view. This photograph shows the work inprogress. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The three letters in this book with varied type fonts and placement on the pages are J,K, and X. The last three printed pages depict a cryptic message, e.g., 'K X J,' 'and,' '1 Sign.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.