The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry by Craig Svonkin

Author:Craig Svonkin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

FIGURE 4 Geof Huth, “The Weight of Thinking” (2020)

“The Weight of Thinking” is one of hundreds of fidgetglyphs (extemporaneous handwritten visual poems) I created during the 2020–21 coronavirus pandemic, and it appears in my book lines of thought: fidgetglyphs (2021), itself a selection of those hundreds. These poems were rarely directly about the pandemic, but the isolation and dread caused by that event filled my thoughts and drifted into my creation of these abstract pieces. These poems suggest words or characters, but they are essentially drawings of what I was thinking and feeling. Out of the 100 poems in the book, only eight include any recognizable alphabetic characters, and only two any words in a human language. I want to make poetry strong enough to survive without words.

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