"[Steve] McCaffery's Panopticon is perhaps the exemplary / antiabsorptive book. The first twenty pages / are printed on a grid background, a visual trope / for the refusal of these pages to be absorbed / by the reader"
Contains images of "[a] man's torso / with a cutaway view / of the digestive system," "a large picture of McCaffery / staring at the reader," "an ad for / acne cream in Spanish," a "handwritted designation 'plates 21-29,' but / of course there are no plates"
"Panopticon / makes use of just about / every possible antiabsorptive device [...] the middle section / of the work has a separate text running in / the bottom third of the page, which is shaded / gray; a number of pages are all caps; a number / have two separate strands of meaning on alternating / prose lines, one / designated by caps & the other by upper/lower / case." (63_