Book Spine Poetry: The Spark of Love

Hey, look, it’s more book spine poetry. (As a reminder, this literary remix experiment is inspired by artist Nina Katchadourian and her Sorted Books project from a few years back.) After the working theory of love, here comes love in practice — that moment when one heart sings to another and, just like that, magic materializes — captured in book spines:

After you
Talk to me,
Everything sings,
Everything is illuminated:
Instant love

The books:

• After You (public library) by Natascha McElhone
• Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects (public library) by Paola Antonelli
• Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas (public library) by Denis Wood
• Everything Is Illuminated (public library) by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Instant Love: How to Make Magic and Memories with Polaroids (public library) by Susannah Conway, Amanda Gilligan, and Jenifer Altman

Catch up on previous book spine poems: The Future, Get Smarter, This Is New York, Music, and The Meaning of Life.

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