Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems
Bob Raczka
This collection contains 21 concrete, or shape, poems. It introduces the form by explaining that a poem’s words can create pictures on the page as well as images in a reader’s mind. The arrangement of letters and words is part of each poem’s meaning, including the playfully designed one-word titles. Poems describe the concept or object named by their titles through visual form. The final poem, “PoeTRY,” directly invites readers to try writing poetry, presenting its words as an inverted pyramid.
This book appears on 4 reading lists across 2 editions from 4 organizations.
