Annette Dauphin Simon

Spine Poems: An Eclectic Collection of Found Verse for Book Lovers Annette Dauphin Simon

A charming, clever, and original collection of more than 100 spine poems-a popular form of found poetry composed by arranging book spines--illustrated with 110 full-color photographs.

Easy to create and share online, spine poems--also known as collage poems or centos--have become a fun and popular way of writing poetry. Disclaimer is a delightful, illustrated collection of more than 100 spine poems that range from hilarious to heart-rending to profound.

Award-winning creative director and former bookseller Annette Simon has arranged the poems in categories that resemble those found in a bookstore: Art, Biography and Memoir, Business, Cooking, Home and Garden, Music, Parenting, Philosophy, Politics, Pop Culture, and True Crime. Each poem pulls from a wide variety of book genres and ranges from the short and quippy to lengthier and poignant.

Actress

Anyone

Anne Enright / Charles Soules


Eek!

My Heart

Is Was

Torpedoed

Hundred Percent

Wonderstruck

Didn't See That Coming

Restart

(Julie Larios and Julie Paschkis / Corinna Luyken / Deborah Freedman / Deborah Heiligman /Karen Romano Young / Brian Selznick / Rachel Hollis / Gordon Korman)

Every poem is visually captured in a collage using stacked color photographs of book spines taken by the author and is presented in a text version on the opposite page. Each spread also includes a list of the authors whose book titles are highlighted in the poem, and features quotes, fun facts, and other related literary and popular culture miscellany.

Disclaimer is a wonderful keepsake and gift book for all lovers of words, books, and poetry.