I visited a blog yesterday and was introduced to book spine poetry. I found some more at Brain Pickings, a contest (that is, sadly, completed), and many other references to spine poetry.
The idea is to choose books carefully so that, when laid on their sides and stacked, their titles become the lines of a poem
I’d never heard of it before, but decided to try my hand at it:
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As I Lay dying
the speed of dark
The Sense of an Ending
Altered Carbon
Being Nobody, Going Nowhere
We
The Dispossessed
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db johnston
almost falling 