--- FRIEDA2133 at aol.com wrote: > To: Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, > Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody > a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel > > Mark, I started counting again. > > http://www.forteanbureau.com/april2004/brust.html is 17 lines > long, if you count the line "The End" . > > Mark, does http://www.forteanbureau.com/april2004/brust.html > match any specific poetry criteria that you know of? > > It has too many lines to be a tanka or haiku. > > The Aol dictionary says there is "concrete poetry". > Definition: "poetry in which the poet's intent is conveyed by the graphic > patterns of letters, words, or symbols rather than by the conventional > arrangement of words" > > If you trace on the outside of each line of text in the "grocery > list", you could have a drawing of an onion with part of the stalk > still attached. Garlic would also have a stalk, but I would think > the lines would have to be longer at the bottom. > > What do you think, Mark? I do not think it is poésie concrète. I think it's just a shopping list for a meal like many of the ones Vlad tells us about, with the lines centered. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.] __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail