Qage

The attraction people feel concerning the shapes of particular letters of an
alphabet and the particular beauty of individual alphabetic characters. (What
we love about Qage is that it is so utterly foreign, that the shapes of its four
pieces are so weird and wonderful. What keeps us returning to Qage is that it
is totally familiar, that we know each of its letters like the lines within the
palms of our writing hands.) (First, it shows us that he knows something
about Qage, which is just about the first requirement we must make of a
visual poet. Qage is both the remarkable, yet usually restrained, beauty of
individual letters, and our recognition of the strangeness of the idea that
mere shapes of ink (or even pixels) can carry any meaning.) (Gaze chooses
the e because it is the ultimate letter of Qage; the minuscule e is so small and
cramped that it is the letter used when people want to verify the visual
reproduction of a text (if the top of the e fills with black, the reproduction is
inadequate).)