The concept of book spine poetry appeared in 1993 with Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books project. Katchadourian began collecting interesting titles and arranging them in clusters so the spines could be read like a sentence(s) or poem.
- The 3 Mistakes of My Life
- That Thing Called Love
- Losing My Virginity…
- The Husband
PS : This is NOT a personal story!
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LOL. Initially, I read the third line as Dean Koontz (from the photo) and was wondering, but I god the poem once I read your words below. Prophetic lines, BTW 😛
Destination Infinity
LOL @ “Prophetic lines” 😀
hahaha funny one!
Glad this brought some smiles 🙂
😀 cool
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LOL 😛 The PS is so important hehe 😉
Oh yes, it was important to mention that! 😀
Haaahaa!!
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Great Idea. I should arrange some of my books that way 🙂
Sure, you must try SP with your books. Looking forward to see poetry with your books!
Good one.
Thanks Janaki 🙂
Had my laugh…the titles arranged very well..
I wanna try out too..
manjulikapramod.com
Go ahead and do that! Would love to see your spine poetry 🙂
How wonderfully hilarious! Great idea :))
🙂 Thanks 🙂
Wonderful! I loved this one! hahaha
Glad you liked it, B 🙂
Lol!!! ha ha 🙂 Good One!!
Thanks 🙂
good one !
Thanks 🙂
Lol @ PS! How important to have it! Nice one!
You bet!! 😀
Seriously funny especially the last point ;-).
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😀 LOLz….in the third line I thought it was like
“…and other dumb ideas(The Husband)”.
That also makes sense! 😀
🙂 This is funny!
The first two aren’t mistakes I say. 😉
They could be mistakes… wrong person, wrong time!?! 🙂
lol Shilps 🙂
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this book “3 mistakes of my life” was a regular feature on spine contest too :-)! We truly missed having u here…
I saw the pics today on FB… you all had a great time and that made me think the same too. Hope we meet sometime for another Spine Poetry event!
Amazing way of expressing thoughts. 🙂
Yeah, it is in vogue now-a-days! 😀
hehehe witty one Shilpa 😀
Thanks 😀
Wonderful concept.To be honest,this is the first time I have heard of ‘spine ooetry’. Very interesting.
Glad you liked this concept of spine poetry, Ma’am! You should try it with your books too! 🙂
Mast hai…especially the disclaimer 😛 I guffawed when I read that.
Lazy Pineapple
LOL 😀
Ha Ha Ha. The husband is definitely worth a mistake. Ingenious Shilpa. I wonder how you must be rummaging your book shelf for getting that perfect poem! Tell me how much time you spend?
Joy always,
Susan
Thanks Susan! Glad this brought a laugh! Well, all my books are in one cupboard, so I sit in front of it for a while and keep looking at the titles and then something works out or sometimes, I keep thinking about it while I am working, cooking etc… 😀
nice composition…
ha ha
Thank you, Krishna 🙂
Hahahah…can’t help laughing…LOL
Glad this brought a hearty laugh, Latha 😀
This one’s hilarious! 😀
😀 Thanks 🙂
That was just amazing Shilpa:)
Thank you Mr Bhatia 🙂
this is one of ur best!! couldn’t stop laughing…..’the husband”?? LOL!!!!
😀 Thanks 😀
WAAAW…
I loved this…
And hey! Thanks for introducing to the World of Spine Poetry!
Thanks, Satya. Hope to see your poetry with books too 🙂
another nice arrangement from you shilpa:). I want to try it aleast once.
Pls… try it!! 🙂
Haha..clever – thoroughly enjoyed this, Shilpa! 🙂
Thanks Corinne! Glad you liked it 🙂
😀 Now this is some poetry! 😛