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.
Katchadourian’s Sorted Book Project manages to become more than an experiment in medium. Her playful photographed poems are sometimes cleverly arranged jokes or amusing images, but at other times, they are short and stunning thoughts on the nature of art and artists. You can see all the series at her website.
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Between the Headlines
Crorepati Turns Roadpati
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Dear John
Never Mind Yaar
Shades of Life
Twists and Turns
Trust Your Intuition
Knock out Challenges
You can be Healthy
You can WIN!!
Linking this post to the Ultimate Blog Challenge and October’s NaBloPoMo.
36 Responses
Twists and turns offer varying shades of life so that John can trust his intuition as well as experience to win 🙂
Destination Infinity
Absolutely! 🙂
Shilpa this is fantastic. I cannot even think of creating such a poem.
Thank you Ma’am. Glad you liked this attempt 🙂
Lovely…like always 🙂
Thanks Kajal 🙂
letter to a friend, interesting verse Shilpa 🙂
Thks Reshma 🙂
I think you wrote the poem first and then the books were written. lovely.
Awweee!! 😀 Thanks Kalpana 🙂
Interesting it is, Shilpa!!
Thank you Ankita 🙂
Very nice poetry. Just FYI. Nina developed this concept in Half Moon Bay, a small town in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Aha! That’s nice. You live around that area na??
That was cool, Shilpa ji 🙂 nice one, and a superb advice to John 😀
btw, could u pls tell me which is the book whose spine is hidden 🙂 the juicy one ?
Glad you liked that Sreeja! 🙂
The hidden book is Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol.
so many books err…lines. you are an ace in spine poetry now. and you have almost finished the nablopomo and challenge. tomorrow is the winning day:)
LOL 😀 Thank you so much Asha!!
Yeah, the challenge is finally coming to an end tomorrow!! Thank you for all your support! Appreciate it 🙂
Oh this was awesome!
Thank you Aditi 🙂
hahahaha loved the last few lines 😀
Thanks 😀
A ‘Dear John’ letter with a difference! 🙂
Aha! You remember the earlier one!! 🙂
awesome!! this one is one of ur best in spine poetry! i bet it was tough to put it together!!
Thanks LP. Glad you liked this one. Hmmm… actually, the last 4 titles had been in my thoughts for a long time and I really wanted to create something with these titles. So, this time, I was determined to use these book spines and rest fell in place too! 😀
As always…. Interesting! 🙂
Thank you Sheethal 🙂
This indeed takes a lot of talent to do. Lovely. 🙂
Thank you so much, Jyothi 🙂
interesting concept…
When are you trying this one? 🙂
Pretty neat one that, Shilpa!
Thanks Rachna 🙂
I love your spine poetry! And it is through you I came to know about it. What an interesting set of titles you arranged 😀
You must try it with your set of books too, Richa! Waiting 🙂