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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...
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CRISIS! Dog and Cat find out the family is moving. Dog freaks out. He does NOT want to move. He goes through all the classic stages: denial, anger, bargaining, and depression. Cat tries to get him to acceptance. But Cat is fine--really she is--or is she? Dog and Cat plow through the days until moving. They eat. They nap. They argue. They take care of their owners. But can they figure out how to stop this terrible move? Dog & Cat is told in a series...
5) Indecency
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"Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white supremacy and the dominant social order. Political and personal, tender, daring, and insightful, the author unpacks his intimacies, weaponizing poetry to take on masculinity, sexuality, exploitation, and the prison industrial complex and unmask...
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This volume presents works by fifty women who may not have identified themselves as concrete poets, but whose work focused on multiplying the possibilities opened up by attending to language's materiality, and on challenging the very constructs that support the binaries divorcing a poem's physical properties from its more subjective ones. Their work may very well represent the "tension of word-things in space-time" that the Brazilian Noigandres group...
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"Can you spell a kangaroo? Yes, at Alphabet City Zoo! Spell a picture, not a word--That's the craziest thing I've heard! Find the letters in the art, It's easy once you make a start. All the letters can be found, Back-to-front or upside-down. Spell each creature, find its name, That's the alphabetical game. This storyline is simple and empowering, in the form of a question and answer format. Readers spell their way through the animal pictures, made...
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