Overview
A charming, clever, and original collection of more than 100 spine poems-a popular form of found poetry composed by arranging book spines--illustrated with 110 full-color photographs.
Easy to create and share online, spine poems--also known as collage poems or centos--have become a fun and popular way of writing poetry. Spine Poems is a delightful, illustrated collection of more than 100 spine poems that range from hilarious to heart-rending to profound.
Award-winning creative director and former bookseller Annette Simon has arranged the poems in categories that resemble those found in a bookstore: Art, Biography and Memoir, Business, Cooking, Home and Garden, Music, Parenting, Philosophy, Politics, Pop Culture, and True Crime. Each poem pulls from a wide variety of book genres and ranges from the short and quippy to lengthier and poignant.
Eek
My Heart
Is Was
Torpedoed
Hundred Percent
Wonderstruck
Didn't See That Coming
Restart
(Julie Larios and Julie Paschkis / Corinna Luyken / Deborah Freedman / Deborah Heiligman /Karen Romano Young / Brian Selznick / Rachel Hollis / Gordon Korman)
Every poem is visually captured in a collage using stacked color photographs of book spines taken by the author and is presented in a text version on the opposite page. Each spread also includes a list of the authors whose book titles are highlighted in the poem, and features quotes, fun facts, and other related literary and popular culture miscellany.
Spine Poems is a wonderful keepsake and gift book for all lovers of words, books, and poetry.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780063208223
- ISBN-10: 0063208229
- Publisher: Harper
- Publish Date: September 2022
- Dimensions: 6.1 x 8.5 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.65 pounds
- Page Count: 224
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