Hirschman writes in a letter to the Sackners that this is the first example of a Haikrostic, a poetic form of 24 or 25 syllables in contrast to the three line, 12 syllable haiku. Further, the first letters of every word add up to the name of someone. In this work, most of the haikrostics spell out the names of living and dead poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.