This book is an anthology of visual and picture poems made by students from kindergarten to the 12th grade living in Seattle, Washington. The poems and teaching methods are analyzed by the author who was a poet-in-residence in the school system in Seattle. In the final chapter, he presents and comments on poems by established adult poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The catalogue began with an historical introduction to text based works and included reproduced images of 20th century artists whose works are held by the Sackner Archive such as Apollinaire, Marinetti, Sabatier, Indiana, Kriwet, Augusto de Campos, Furnival, Finlay, Gomringer, Klaus-Peter Dienst, and Schuldt. The exhibition itself featured several artists whose works are held by the Sackner Archive, viz., Barton Lidice Benes, Howard Finster, Werner Hartmann, Stephanie Brody Lederman, Betty Tompkins, Regina Vater -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Essays were originally delivered at the symposium "Modernism in the Low Countries 1915-1930," held at the University of Texas at Austin. Primary focus was on Dutch Modernist poetry, especially the work of VanOstaijen and Bonset. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.