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Image, Text, and the Intermedial Poetry of Shel Silverstein

Panel: 
Poetry and Poetics III: Bodies and Forms
Abstract: 

This paper explores the visual dimension of Silverstein’s children’s poetry, analyzing his unique method of blurring the line between image and text, word and picture, a method which occasions new ways of reading, new ways of relating to texts.

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Joseph T.
Last Name: 
Thomas, Jr.
Institution: 
San Diego State University