Finlay, Alec, Mesostic herbarium , c2004
- Title(s):
- Mesostic herbarium : a phytological anthology / by various amateurs of botany ; being a partial heterodox collection of mesostic poems on the names of flora, arranged according to habitat.
- Published/Created:
- Edinburgh : Platform Projects, c2004.
- Physical Description:
- [188] p. : ill. ; 18 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (3 in.)
- Holdings:
- Unable to reach service. Holdings currently not available
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/10471710
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Limited edition of 4500 copies.
"Mesostic herbarium is an album of phytological and mycological poems collected from people in many countries. As with all the forms that I have adapted or adopted for artist anthologies ... the mesostic is guided by certain rules: choose a plant, its name gives a stem; compose a poem, one word per line ... The dynamic of words strung up and down a key chain--language in a tangle--suggested they be animated, and so we have produced a CD-ROM presenting 144 mesostics by children aged from six to fourteen ..."--From "Tangled language," at end. - Subject Terms:
- Artists' books -- Great Britain.Botany -- Poetry.Plants -- Poetry.Platform Projects -- Publisher.
- Form/Genre:
- Artists' books.
Mesostics.
Poems.
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