Artists' periodical edited by Michael Andre and Erika Rothenberg. Contains contributions by writers, artists, and musicians including Neal Abramson, Kathy Acker, Tom Ahern, John Baldessari, Timothy Baum, Daniel Berrigan, Andre Breton, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, John Cage, Alan Davies, Bob Dylan, General Idea, David Hockney, Ray Johnson, Donald Kuspit, Alison Knowles, Lucy Lippard Frank O'Hara, Gary Snyder, Alan Ziegler, and many more. Images interspersed throughout texts. "A compendium (using the alphabet for a filing system) of statements that seem not to depend on other knowledge. Aardvark is independent of Mammal, Angel of God. The unit of the Encyclopedia is the Fact. A fact is a corpsed deed; from L. factum, done, but with the residuum of accomplished action subtracted. Facts lie there pickled and are generally wrong, scribes' minds having swerved from the continuum of action. Guy Davenport notes that the Britannica 'has Waley sending Ez off on the trot to translate Cathay, unruffled by picturing an event of 1917 causing an event of 1915.' SHUN ALL ENCYCLOPEDIAS BUT THIS ONE." --quote by Hugh Kenner from back of edition.