5.07.2012

book·ish : Poetic Spines.


Here's a fun and bookish project to try out : make poetry from book spines! I stumbled across the idea the other day, and knew I just had to go home and make my own attempt. The hardest part? Finding verbs to make it read more like a poem than a list of titles. 


Speak bittersweet, good poems -
atonement, 
a great and terrible beauty - 
traveling with pomegranates 
a million miles in a thousand years. 


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book·ish/ˈbo͝okiSH/Adjective



1. (of a person or way of life) Devoted to reading and studying rather than worldly interests.
2. (of language or writing) Literary in style or allusion.
3. (of art and all manner of lovely things) devoted to the written word as a form of art and as a way of seeing the world.
4. (of SheWritesandRights.blogspot.com) anything of the aforementioned characteristics as they arefound on the interwebs and reposted by Bethany, because bookish and writerly things always give reason for amusement. 


2 comments:

Timothy Snyder said...

Well, I know what I'm doing first thing when I get home....

Bonnie Carrillo said...

Interesting challenge.  I may have to try this.  Bonnie

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