"'Concrete poetry communicates its own structure: is an object in & by itself. Its material: word (sound, visual shape, semantical charge); its problem: the function & relation of this material; factors: nearness & similarity - gestalt psychology; rhythm: relational force. Like cybernetics; the poem as self-regulating machine. Concrete poems can be dull amusing grand satirical playful sad - anything except epic. 'Help serious thought & mind play; concrete poet: play - expert making speech - rules' (Gomringer: independently of Wittgenstein?). The constructed poem attracts: it is human, friendly, makes words move on the page - they move as quick as the eye the poem attracts. Eyeverse is not 'read' - it creates an impression through the gestalt shape of the whole toy-tool, architected, poem - through each word as the eye wanders over them in any order.' - Dom Sylvester Houedard, Concrete Poetry & Ian Hamilton Finlay, Typographica 8, 1963 — Houedard
— stamped letters by Martin Reis (2025)