Each page contains a concrete poem related to the sea which is represented by repeatedly typed "the sea." The sky is the typed word "light" and the repeated letters of that word. The second and third poems contains the words "dolphin" and "whale" created with blank spaces on the typed background. The fourth poem consists of the letters LIGHF, Grumman's made-up word pronounced "life." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bob Grumman contributed an introductory essay "Instigator Grumman's Introductions." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Grumman lists and describes various of types of poetry and their interconnections, such as songmode, plaintext, language, visual, mathematical, and performance poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Grumman lists and describes various types of poetry and their interconnections, such as songmode, plaintext, language, visual, mathematical, and performance poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poems use solely the word "rain" with the dot above the 'i' being varies from shading to added words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Grumman made this one of two colllages after he visited the Sackner Artchive a day previously. In this collage, the letter 'P' ithat completes the word "POEM" s absent. The word 'POETRY" is mising the 'P' that is obscured by a chaoti colorful abstract dtawing and the 'Y'is abssetn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Irving Petlin's image reproduced on the inside front cover is a pastel on paper work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Grumman gave this print to the Sackners during his visit to the Archive in June 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title of this book, "Conflatio," derives from the Latin and with an 'n' added means a fusing together according to Bob Grumman's introductory essay. Each page depicts an image of a neural network in its upper half and a grid of nine, spread-out letters in its lower half. For example, the first page can be interpreted as the first loss of "Eden." "Evaginate," the word spelled out by in the second page means, "to unsheathe or take a grain out of the husk; also to tureen a tubular organ inside-out." But the network accompanying the word is richly and thickly clustering. This putting "Eden" behind yields the best grain? And acts - VER/MIC/IDE being the next text vermicidally? -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue deals with problems of homeless persons and conceptual art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Grumman made this one of two colllages after he visited the Sackner Artchive a day previously. In this collage, the letter 'P' ithat completes the word "POEM" s absent. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Also designated Wordict No.1. The answer to the title of the poem is an ampersand raised to the third power. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.