Scope and Contents The shapes of the poems in this book are composed of calligraphic text arranged to form human figures or parts of figures. In addition, line drawings of human figures overlay conventional poems to form picture poems. Finally, both line and calligraphic drawings of the same figurative shape are printed on some of the facing pages. This effect is analogous to the work of the Italian poet, Ketty La Rocca that was published in the seventies.Wikipedia: Pierre Bearn (15 June 1902 -- October 27, 2004) was a French writer. He was born Louis-Gabriel Besnard in Bucharest, Romania.He is known to Anglophones for his poem "Couleurs d'usine", which includes the line Metro boulot bistrots megots dodo zero (translation: "Subway work bars (cigarette) butts sleep nothing"). A multifaceted personality, at one time a journalist, novelist, poet, fabulist and humanist, at age nine Bearn began writing in French slang, his "natural" language. His father having died prematurely, at the age of 14 he became...

Scope and Contents The shapes of the poems in this book are composed of calligraphic text arranged to form human figures or parts of figures. In addition, line drawings of human figures overlay conventional poems to form picture poems. Finally, both line and calligraphic drawings of the same figurative shape are printed on some of the facing pages. This effect is analogous to the work of the Italian poet, Ketty La Rocca that was published in the seventies.Wikipedia: Pierre Bearn (15 June 1902 -- October 27, 2004) was a French writer. He was born Louis-Gabriel Besnard in Bucharest, Romania.He is known to Anglophones for his poem "Couleurs d'usine", which includes the line Metro boulot bistrots megots dodo zero (translation: "Subway work bars (cigarette) butts sleep nothing"). A multifaceted personality, at one time a journalist, novelist, poet, fabulist and humanist, at age nine Bearn began writing in French slang, his "natural" language. His father having died prematurely, at the age of 14 he became...