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http://www.euph0r1a.net/mesostomatic/ using text from http://www.digitalsalon.com/weblog/

 

 

 


From: owner-[email protected] [mailto:owner-[email protected]] On Behalf Of Allan Revich
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 9:43 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: FLUXLIST: mesostic

 

n his early mesostics, Cage would simply write a word (usually a name) vertically down the page, with all the letters capitalized. Then, he would "fill in the blanks" and come up with a poem using the "spine" he had chosen. For Example (by the author):

 

the b

Eautiful

o

Xen are

ro

Aming

a

Mong us

op

Portunity is

be

Laboring

th

Em

 

Cage dubbed these poems "acrostics" until Norman O. Brown pointed out that acrostics had their "spine" letters on the edges of the words, not down the middle. Cage renamed the poems "Mesostics", a word derived from "Acrostic", but with an indication that the vertical aspect is in the middle of the word.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-[email protected] [mailto:owner-[email protected]] On Behalf Of Madawg Painterofdark
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 9:56 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: mesostic

 

 

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      fOr

      tAble

    faiNt

      tEar

 

      oF

      lEaps

    folLow

       Drink

      cHide

      fUn

       Ruby

       Year

 

by

Madawg

 

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