We continue to celebrate National Poetry Month by sharing some of the artists’ books that incorporate found poetry. It’s been a lot of fun to find interesting artists’ books!
Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning.
This artist’s book entitled Tick Tiger Trout uses the New York City phone book as its source material. Artist Eva Mantell extracted the last names of people in New York that refer to nature, such as sun, moon, planet, star…
Tick, tiger, trout Eva Mantell. [Rosendale, N.Y.] : Published by Women's Studio Workshop, ©1996. 20 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm English Cover title. "Being a partial reading of the New York City phone book” HOLLIS number: 990152987920203941