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15 BEAUTIFUL LOVE POEMS
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- Fortner Anderson
As its title suggests, 15 Beautiful Love Poems, contains 15 poems about love. Its text is engraved within a solid block of crystal. The book weighs 5.4 kilos. The 15 poems appear within the transparent block in super-imposed layers, so are unreadable.
Each of the 15 poems reproduces the syntactic structure of an iconic English-language love poem. Think of Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edgar Allan Poe, William Butler Yeats and others. Each of the poem in the book conserves the rhyme schema, the rhythm, the line length and the punctuation of their model poem.
In addition, the poems have been entirely composed using citations of the work of other Canadian poets; Lorna Crozier, Susan Musgrave, Alice Walker, Margaret Avison, Ruth Taylor, Anne Szumigalski among others.
The book was composed in Montreal and Sutton, Quebec, over a 15 month period from mid-2023 to the early spring of 2025.
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