This book is structured with traditional poetry comprising the front half of the book and language poetry begining from the back of the book, comprising the second half of the book. Susan Bee designed the book and contributed a painting for the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem was written by Lazer in May 1993 while on a three week cultural exchange program to China. The poem consists of three sections and each section contains nine stanzas of nine sentences each. Lazer writes that his "interest in sentence-based poetic compositions derives from reading of the work of Ron Silliman, Lyn Hejinian, and Gertrude Stein." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.