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I've never felt very confident about choosing titles for my own writings (as evidenced by my explanation of the "Jo would" title for this blog in my previous entry!)  so I'm often impressed by a good title when I see it.  That may be why this contest appealed to me.  

Recently the American Library Association asked for contributions of short, visual poems made from the titles of books when they were stacked together. I really liked their examples (see http://atyourlibrary.org/national-library-week-book-spine-poetry-contest) and spent some time wondering what I would choose -- too much time, as it turned out!  It's too late to submit an entry, but I've still had fun doing this so I thought I'd share here. 


P.S. I found that some books don't have titles on their spines that layer well so, in case you can't read them from this photo, here's my stack of titles/poem: 

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side --
Things Fall Apart
This Side of Paradise

(Written by Agatha Christie, Chinua Achebe and F. Scott Fitzgerald, respectively.)

Now I'm wondering what you might choose?  

And, being the borrower that I am, I'm already working on my next book-spine poem!