Bookmash Poetry

We were talking earlier about bookmashes and the ones listed on Stan Carey’s blog.

And he said he was inspired to do his bookmashes by an artist named Nina Katchadourian.

And she has a project called the Sorted Books Project, where she takes photographs of books in certain order to make them, you know, to create found poetry.

And on her site, there’s a great series of three books.

They’re really old-fashioned books that you might have read as a kid when you were, you know, in the 1940s or 1950s.

So you’ve got to picture this, and we’ll link to it on our site.

But here are the three books laid next to each other: Indian history for young folks, our village, your national parks.

I love that.

Yeah, there’s a lot in that, isn’t there?

Yeah, it’s really deep.

Layers of meaning.

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