Edited by Jerome Rothenberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book, printed in Gomringer's preferred lower case futura typography, contains sections on ideograms, poetic hommages to artists that include Josef Albers, Max Bill, Paul Lohse, and Gunther Uecker, books, book of hours, etc. Karl Riha contributed an afterward. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

On page 85, Riha publishes a poem entitled, gomringers schweigen (komplett) in which the empty silent space is filled with gomringer in version a ; in version b, gomringer substitutes for schweigen and the empty space is taken up by schweigen. In addition, 14 concrete poems playing upon the name of gomringer are printed on pages 87-96. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Variations of the Gomringer's poem "wie weis ist wissen die weisen" have been typeset in lower case letters in rectangular blocks and interspered among illustrations of Uecker's white nail works. There are 720 permutations of the words in the title sentence. The cover by Uecker is embossed with images of nails placed on heavy white paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is a selection of critical essays about art and poetry written between 1958 and 2000. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.