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• 1 media/haiku book crop.jpg 2016-12-06T10:01:58-08:00 Unreadable Text: Haiku Book I 16 image_header 2016-12-11T21:42:05-08:00 Scott Helmes's collection of Haiku Books from 2007 contain a collection of visual poetry made from magazine cutouts arranged in a three-line haiku format. The pieces he chose often feature text, but only fragmented pieces of words appear; this leads us to ask, what are the syllables? The text or the images themselves? This de-familiarization of letter forms, although technically unreadable, can be interpreted by the composition of each page. Throughout Haiku Book I, the collages become less clinical--in the end, the rough edges and layering of syllables devolves into a tangled heap.