Acrostic
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
South Coast Sails (blue) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996
The paper stock onto which the poem is printed is blue in color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
South Coast Sails (orange) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996
The paper stock onto which the poem is printed is orange in color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Christine Brooke-Rose Omnibus: Four Novels, 1986
The four novels are titled: "Out," "Such," "Between," and "Thru." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Oxford Guide to Word Games / Augard, Tony ; Carroll L ; Gomringer E ; Apollinaire G ; Herbert G ; Finlay IH ; Morgan E ; Williams E., 1986
This is an anthology with definitions and examples of topics that include Riddles, Enigmas, Charades, Acrostics, Word Squares, Crosswords, Scrabble, Anagrams, Rebuses, Chronograms, Palindromes, Panagrams, Lipograms, Letter Games, Alphabet Games, Playing with Poetry, Concrete Poetry, Tongue Twisters, Spoonerisms, Lapsus Linguae, Games of Lewis Carroll, Consequences, Twenty Questions, Hangman, Puns, and The Longest Word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Pirates of Pen's Chance / Barbour, Douglas ; Scobie, Stephen., 1981
The Secret Life of Words: Poetry Exercises and Activities / Franco, Betsy ; Damon, Maria ; Bernstein C ; Nichol bp ; Carroll L ; Mayer B ; Perec G ; Queneau R ; Sondheim A ; Breton A ; Eluard P ; Bayer K ; Grumman B ; Joans T ; Smart C., 2000
Although this book is compiled for students in grades 3 to 6, the level of the work and poetic references are also suitable for a more sophisticated audience. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Vitriolum, 1988
The title represents an acrostic of alchemy: Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificandoque Invenies Occultum Lapidem Veram Medicinam according to Persiani. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Words nd Ends from Ez / Mac Low, Jackson., 1989
Mac Low extracts new poetry from the Cantos of Ezra Pound by his systematic use of strings of letters" and thereby reveals a purer, inhering paradise within Pound's poem." His method is explained in detail in the afterward. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.