Judith Hoffberg contributes a preface titled "Birds, Bones and Books." In "Joyce's New York: A conversation" Margot Lovejoy interviews Cutler-Shaw. She states that you can enjoy and read calligraphy without knowing the language and that she is "drawn to the more contemporary form of concrete poetry, in which meaning is tied to its visual representation." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.