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I have a tattoo of a mesostic from John Cage's Sixty Two Mesostics Re: Merce Cunningham on the small of my back.
Ink-Stained Wretch Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Anne de Montaut was an acrostic, a mesostic, a St. Andrew's Cross, a lozenge, -- everything, in short, but a sonnet.
De Libris: Prose and Verse Austin Dobson 1880
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It preserves the acrostic and mesostic, though not the telestic, form of the original:
belkjoseph commented on the word mesostic
A mesostic is a poem or other typography such that a vertical phrase intersects lines of horizontal text. Similar to an acrostic, but with the vertical phrase intersecting the middle of the line, as opposed to beginning each new line.
The practice of using of using index words to select pieces from a preexisting text was developed by Jackson Mac Low as "diastics". It was used extensively by the experimental composer John Cage
September 17, 2008