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Oct232012

Try This: Book Spine Poetry


Listening to your life,

torch the simple truth.

Risking everything,

love always

the imperfect paradise

of gravity & angels.

 

Love a cut-up, a collage, a literary re-mix? Me, too!

Inspired by artist Nina Katchadourian's Sorted Books project [via Brain Pickings] I searched my shelves and assembled titles for the spine scramble above. And in the process I rediscovered several loved-but-forgotten books:

Listening to Your Life
daily meditations by Frederick Buechner

Torch
novel by Cheryl Strayed

The Simple Truth
poems by Philip Levine

Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation
edited by Roger Housden

Love Always
novel by Ann Beattie

The Imperfect Paradise
poems by Linda Pastan

Of Gravity & Angels
poems by Jane Hirshfield


Book spine poems are fun — and addictive. I bet you can't try just one!

 

Reader Comments (4)

I hate being stuck here at work, so far from my bookshelves. I'm anxious to try this out.

October 23, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterShawnte

Have you books at work? That could yield some groovy corporate poems! (Or take a break and sneak to the bookstore, the library, the newsstand . . .) Let me know what you find.

October 23, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterDrew

I saw that on Brain Pickings too and thought that it was cool. Love the way yours came out, and am now inspired to do something now! Been needing to re-arrange my shelves anyway. ;-)

October 23, 2012 | Unregistered Commenterval dering rojas

Val, yes, do try one! Let me know how it goes.

October 24, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterDrew

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