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Subject:        Manhattan map poem--a true cartifact
Date:   Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:45:50 -0500
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You may have seen the map poem, a form of concrete poetry, which appeared
in the August 30, 1997 New York Times on the op-ed page. It is a
wonderfully "georeferenced" poem, in that the words in the poem, which is
shaped like Manhattan, are located in their appropriate area in the poem.
Spuyten Duyvil is at the top, the Battery is at the bottom.


Anyway, it is quite neat, and a poster version is now available. See the
info at www.wordmaps.net

Soon to come is another map poem on the Oregon Coast.

Enjoy.

Alice C. Hudson
Chief, The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
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