It is not indicative of her latter work, being "basically a New York School attempt to write verse in response to the paintings of René Magritte".
"[3] During this time Weiner composed poems using flag semaphore and the International Code of Signals,[4] including a version of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet titled "R+J.
Judith Goldman claims that politics and ethics were central to a mode of writing she developed and called "clair-style," which used "words and phrases clairvoyantly seen" and that Weiner arrived at a method of composing that employed "these seen elements exclusively.
Like fellow-traveler Jackson Mac Low, she became an important part of the Language poetry of the 1970s and 1980s, and her influence can be seen today in the so-called "New Narrative" work stemming from the San Francisco Bay Area.
Hannah Weiner’s Open House aims to remedy this with previously uncollected (and mostly never-published) work, including performance texts, early New York School influenced lyric poems, odes and remembrances to / of Mac Low and Ted Berrigan, and later “clair-style” works.In 2016, her "Code Poems" and early performance work was commemorated in a Public Art Fund exhibition outside of New York City Hall.