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"Who says words need to be concrete? This collection shapes poems in surprising and delightful ways. Concrete poetry is a perennially popular poetic form because they are fun to look at. But by using the arrangement of the words on the page to convey the meaning of the poem, concrete or shape poems are also easy to write! From the author of the incredibly inventive Lemonade: And Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word comes another clever collection...

Poems that celebrate favorite things from different seasons of the year, each shaped like the subject at hand.

Presents a collection of thirty-four concrete poems about dogs and their canine behavior.

Young readers can follow the Frisbee or roll along with a soccer ball in a collection of more than twenty poems about outdoor games and sports.

The Collected Poems of Mary Ellen Solt brings together nearly five decades of poetic work. Celebrated for her suite of visual poems Flowers in Concrete, much of Solt's work has remained little known or unpublished. From her lyrical engagement with the "American idiom" of William Carlos Williams to her masterful forays into visual and concrete poetry, this volume, assembled and edited by her daughter Susan Solt, provides an in-depth documentation of...