Weiss defines concrete poetry as poetry "in which the word and sometimes the letter, and even unidentifiable but vaguely pseudo-alphabetical shapes become the basic element- syntax being mostly or entirely abandoned." In this volume, Weiss has rearranged, splintered, interfaced, shaped, cancelled conventional poetry composed by classic poets thereby "creating poems intended as self-conscious utterances whose purpose is to express the relation of traditional verse to its own medium of print." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.