Saturday, January 19, 2013

Saturday's Spine Poetry - 5

Spine Poetry

The concept of book spine poetry appeared in 1993 with Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books project. Katchadourian began collecting interesting titles and arranging them in clusters so the spines could be read like a sentence(s) or poem.

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A Princess Remembers, One Week With Her Sons and Lovers.

This one is from my sister’s book collection!

24 comments:

  1. Loving it :) Let me go check my books to see if I can do something too :)

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    1. Great!! Looking forward to your poetry with books, Swaram :)

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    1. Yes, my sister loves reading old classics, non-fiction...

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  3. Fab and kudos to the patience of arranging.

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    1. :) It is so fascinating... looking at book spines and working hard to make stories! :)

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    1. Thanks!! Why dont you try it with your books too! :)

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  5. And the sister loved seeing her books out here :D !!!!

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  6. That's a nice sequence, shilpa!

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  7. Wish u were in blore for the spine poetry meet!

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    1. Yeah, I wish I could join you all!!
      Never mind, you all have some great fun and share your poetry with books soon!!

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  8. wow that's lovely, I've been seeing this Spine Poetry magic on so many blogs these days...I'll also try on this weekend now :)

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    1. Glad you liked it, N! Go for it!! looking forward to your SP :)

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  9. Lovely again!!
    I wish I too had a grand collection..I am not able to make do any poetry with with my current collection of books :-(

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    1. Thanks Priyaa! Go on, try it, you will be able to do something with your books!! :)

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  10. Very very interesting!
    Archana

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