On the back cover and internet Appel writes that as an artist I'm looking into and at things that exist along the boundary line between writing and drawing, reading and looking. In the series included here, I've put aside all words that could determine a poem in order to consider the visual possibilities of the poetic form without them. Diagrams emerge, architecture, energy fields, flow charts, blueprints, and compositions of assorted marks relating to each other in confined spaces"¦ I have published several books concerning different aspects of this subject. Shadow Poems is a collection of tracings of the shapes of actual poems by various authors. As it were explores the story form much as these explore the form of a poem. Wordless (poems) blurs the line between written and drawn. (all available through Amazon.) I live and work in New York. Rosaire says: "these visual poems use no words but rely on drawing, marks on paper and subtle color to express their forms." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.