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.
Here’s my today’s poetry story with books…
Joy in the Morning
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
A Bowlful of Butterflies
Tea for Two and a Piece of Cake
Between the Headlines
The Notebook
Wings of Fire
Perfect
Linking it to January 2014 Ultimate Blog Challengeand NaBloPoMo
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17 Responses
This is something absolutely new to me.. Glad you introduced this !!
Lols….from one view I thought it was like a witches’ recipe. 😛 😀
Absolutely perfect! 🙂
Like everytime! Highly creativeand thoroughly enjoyable 😀
Perfect, indeed! 🙂
Love the idea. I have seen it done once before but it was no way as lovely as your “spine poem”. Enjoyed this rather different take
So random and so creative. You always amaze me with your spine poetry. ♥
You are so clever. That was a very interesting story. Perfectly done.
Woooh…. . No wonder you don’t like ebooks much. How can you do this with them? 🙂
Lovely poem!
That’s an interesting collection of authors. Great to see PGW at the top! 🙂
A new poetic form!! Will take notes, Shilpa!
Shilpa….this was just perfect. Loved it! Will try it sometime!
Love to be in the situation 🙂 as always, beautifully composed. 11 days done… great going shilpa:)
Such a perfect poetry! Wishing you a fabulous New Year 2014!
I always loved your Spine poetry! Perfect, this time too 🙂
I haven’t tried this form yet, thanks for sharing 😀
Wow, that is a perfect sunday description Shilpa 🙂 Thoroughly enjoyed this delightful verse.