The graphic novel is a now kind of medium, maturing from the comic and bringing visuals into adult literature. A graphic poem can also experiment with visual elements. Font art, like the cut-and-paste kidnapping note from magazine clippings, can make an interesting contribution to what a poem is saying. Poems and images often go hand in hand, but usually in post production, not so often during the inceptive creative process.
I find the physical shape of the poem, on the page, to be an interesting poetic element. And the shapes of the letters themselves can contribute a visual element to a poem.
In this collection, there were two, specific pieces, that took a physical shape on the page during the writing process. Possibly, it was the shape of the page that invited a long and winding graphic output, but the shape also gives a repetitive redundancy ;) that was part of the mindset. The third poem presented here, Away Away, is a galloping poem, more so than a graphic one, but I've always thought of it as a diminishing triangle on the page.
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