This book was based upon proceedings of 17th annual workshop sponored by the Department of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Reinhold Grimm wrote a detailed, historical, illustrated essay on emblem, concrete and shaped poetry titled, "Poems and/as Pictures: A Quick Look at Two and a Half Millennia of Ongoing Aesthetic Intercourse." Sixty five examples of such poems are depicted. Grimm provides several shaped poems by different authors from George Herbert to Eugen Gomringer on "meditative wings." A shaped poem by an anonymous author entiltled "Cube" (1710) is printed in German and Yiddish (Figure 29). ee cummings' poem "Grasshopper" (1935) is reprinted (Figure 32). Includes three erotic shaped poems by Reinhold Aman, editor of the magazine, Maledicta (Figures 62-64). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Foreword for this anthology involving permutations of groups of four words, sentences &/or images was contributed by Pierre Garnier. The afterword was done by Dieter Mahlow. The 70 Roman numeral designated books were distributed to the artists (Sackner copy); the remaining 80 numbered copies were offered for sale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The author does a critical tabular and diagrammatic analysis of selected concrete poems by Gomringer, Jandl, Dohl, Thomkins, Hesse, Bremer, and Schauffelen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition catalogue deals with the works published by Mayer as well as his own experiments in concrete poetry. It is profusely illustrated with works by artist/poets published by the press and also with reproductions of Mayer's monoprints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this article, Vos states that he is a follower of the linguistic theories of Nelson Goodman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.