OFF RADAR: 'things seemed to be breaking: visual poems'
OFF RADAR: ‘things seemed to be breaking: visual poems’ A new book by former poet laureate Stuart Kestenbaum By Dana Wilde Share “things seemed to be breaking: visual poems” by Stuart Kestenbaum; Deerbrook Editions, Cumberland, Maine, 2021; 136 pages, paperback, $18.50. “Found poetry” is a peculiarly modern phenomenon. It’s made when words, phrases and sometimes entire passages from texts such as newspaper articles, advertising copy, government documents or anything else are selected out and re-arranged as poetry. Or whatever. It’s been around since about the time Marcel Du...