Book spine poetry

A posting from Poetry Café

How do you have sorted your books? By author? By genre? By color? (A rainbow-shelf often makes you smile with no effort!) In “Book spine poetry” a certain “order” creates little book title poems. Nina Katchadourina, an artist who often uses the language and translation in her work, has already begun in 1993 to sort books in a way that results in a certain message. The process is always the same: pick and choose from a number of books, mostly in libraries, those that can occur together in the correct order and be read from top to bottom or left to right in a useful, funny combination. In the past 19 years Katchadourina has created over 130 often humorous, sometimes irrelevant or witty phrases.

There are many so called Book Spine Poetrys at the Brainpickings Blog by Maria Popova – you can find many of those masterpieces and others on Pinterest. Here are our favorites:

Links:
Sorted Books at the Website from Nina Katchadourian
Book Spine Poetry at Brainpickings.org
Poetry Café Pinterest Board: Book Spine Poetry