Purpose

The purpose of The Little Black Book is to promote Multi-Cultural Improvisational Poetry.
 

Methods

Disassociated syntax not only the words themselves but how they are used and interchanged in parts of speech.

Fragments and use of news headlines.

Combining stanza or stanza forms with free verse in an even or uneven flow purposely interrupting the sequence of thought to interject another thought.

Visualization of the form on the page

Creating the idea on the page; matter compliments form.

For example: the poem links below: symptoms of a migraine displayed on the page**

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http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook2-4Oct07/LLBOct07B_Klesko_Migraine.htm

http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook2-4Oct07/LLBOct07B_Klesko_Houston.htm

http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook2-4Oct07/LBBOctober07B_Karina_Klesko_Shrevesport.htm

http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook2-4Oct07/LBBOct07_Ed_Baker_One1.htm

Topics

Creativity of topics should cover a broad spectrum addressing the world around us.
 

Examplary Poets

Related Poetry terms

References and Sources

Apollinaire, Guillaume. Calligrammes, translated by Anne Hyde Greet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.

Themerson, Stefan. Apollinaire's Lyrical Ideograms. London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1968.

William, Emmett, editor.  An Anthology of Concret Poetry. New York: Something Else Press, 1967.

Request for Information

*Also please send Sketchbook other examples of this style so we may add it to our list and use the list to study poetry of this nature.

Karina klesko and John Daleiden, Sketchbook Editors

TO: submissionseditor@poetrywriting.org
Subject:  Little Black Book + (topic)