Caption Collage: Preposterous Poetry

by Kate Clem

Caption Preposterous Poetry. This collection of abstract poetry is not only about detachment from the digital social media space, its main settings is the scrolling space itself - it is abrupt, blurry, and has no start or finish line. The captions come originally from my social media account and are glued into poetry based on my artistic think of it as an artful collage made from words on a canvas. The captions have been written over the period of 5 years. For me, they were always little works of art! In this collection they are no longer descriptions to photos but poems, with its own meaning and existence - no longer secondary. Detached from the whole combination with the photo where together they made sense, those newly collided lines become standalone carriers of new meanings - therefore, preposterous. The abstractions behind each poem carry vivid realisation of a blurry connotation behind existence in todays social media space and outside of it. I have always prioritised words, so in the world were words don not matter, here is a space for them to grow into something more powerful than a caption; an art object, a poem, a work of 5 years of my life that took place in front of everyone and everyone was looking but no actually seeing. Few people notice the caption under a photo, so here is a space for captions to exist on their own, independently. Photos are captions to my wor(L)ds. P.S. In the process of detachment of the captions from photos, no posts were damaged.

Genres: Poetry

64 pages, Paperback

Published August 24, 2021

About the author

experimental poet - giving writing lessons on creative collage poetry - everything else are dashes ---

Reviews

[Anika N · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection of poetry is unique and beautiful, it is a bit messy and it makes you think, just the way I like my poetry. Not only did the author combine her captions to create a whole new piece of art, but also used alterations of layout and font sizes to empathize parts that have a special meaning to her.
This book will for sure not leave you bored. Every page is a small new adventure.