Exploring Glossary & Index Poetry
Forms That Skirt Definition
An under-utilized form, glossary poems explore meaning and definition. Similar to list poems and abecedarians (and often overlapping with these forms), there’s an aspect of arrangement and categorization: the impulse to imply (and subvert) order.
Glossary/index poems invite us to consider how a word, term, or phrase can work to introduce or stand in for…
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