Exceptionally designed and handsomely printed catalog of a travelling exhibition. Includes, in addition to a reproduction of the rare limited-edition book by Johns and Samuel Beckett, duotones of proofs executed for the original project, and five original essays on the artists. Paper reprint of the 1987 cloth edition. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Eight short prose pieces written between 1973-1975.

She traces this tradition from its early "French connection" in the poetry of Rimbaud and Apollinaire as well as in Cubist, Dada, and early Surrealist painting; through its various manifestations in the work of Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, and Ezra Pound; to such postmodern "landscapes without depth" as the French/English language constructions of Samuel Beckett, the elusive dreamscapes of John Ashbery, and the performance works of David Antin and John Cage.".