For “ life in quarantine’s art section”, Stanford university, USA, I, Dr pragya suman am submitting four visual poems. Visual poetry is a hybrid genre in which non-representational language and visual elements buffers, inventing a new form of avant garde. Here poetry is not only listening pleasure but also for viewing pleasure. A visual poem may use spaces between words and letters, break lines and even alternative spellings of words to produce visual effect.
I have formed four visual poems named concrete covid cube , corona’s crush, sigh snowing and screech.
Concrete covid cube is constructed in typographical effect. This is a pattern poem in which the words are arranged in such a way as to depict their subject. During my home isolation I felt myself confined in a cube, somehow that feeling has manifested in this craft.
Corona’s crush is minimalist poetry. In minimalist poetry I have tried to fetch effects in a single word CRUSH. Actually minimalist poetry is denarrativezed and decontextualized language and it places words in stark relief.
Sigh snowing is again a visible poetry composed in the fabric of language poetry. Here breakage of poetic language happens and poems are based upon lines, not stanza.
My last visual poetry is Screech where I have tried to manifest my inner ordeal through the corona pandemic I was facing.