Stan Carey has an excellent example of book spine poetry up on his site, this one titled “Antarctica.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Book Spine Poetry”
We’ve talked on the show before about book spine poetry, you know, when you pile up a bunch of books and you read the spine and the titles form a poem.
And Stan Carey had a wonderful one on his blog the other day that he called Antarctica. This is a stack of books read from the side. It goes, skating to Antarctica, desolation island, a place apart where the wasteland ends, soul on ice into the silent land, the other side of you.
Nice.
I like that.
Yeah.
That’s a really nice poem.
And I like that it’s the sum total of a lot of people thinking carefully about titles of books as well.
That’s a beautiful way to put it, yeah.
So the stacking of the books might be accidental or maybe he arranged them that way.
Yeah.
But there’s a lot of independent thought behind each one of those.
If you’ve made your own book spine poetry, we’d love to read it.
You can email it to words@waywordradio.org.
