Poetry Magazine
from “Origins of Poetry”
Joel Lipman has worked for years with rubber stamps, creating poems on yellowing acidic pages torn out of old books. This technique produces a frisson between the apparently unrelated base text and Lipman's overtext. As evidenced by the meter and movement of the words on the page above, it is clear that Lipman is writing real poetry, but it is poetry enhanced by the distinctive appearance of the words.—Geof Huth
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Source: Poetry (November 2008).
Biography
Joel Lipman teaches at the University of Toledo. His recent work includes an illustrated preface to the republication of Bern Porter's Found Poems (Nightboat Books, 2011).
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SUBJECT Arts & Sciences, Poetry & Poets
Poetic Terms Visual Poetry
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