Artwords

Beatriz M. Robles, the daughter of an artist and a poet, is an art book is filled with calligrams (poems shaped like pictures), redactive poetry (poems made by blacking out book pages), and photographs of poems written on objects. The poems have a colorful and engaging presentation that invite even the most poetry-averse reader. Robles’ use of words and phrases is often clever and unexpected and her book is with funny innuendos and creative interpretations and her raunchy humor puts a playful spin on traditional poetry.