Vandalism

[Leanne]

I've seen this kind of thing around quite a bit in recent years -- I love anything that crosses genres and makes poetry more relevant without dumbing it down (though I'm not great at it myself). This seems to me a hybrid between graphic art, graffiti and of course poetry. The choice of graphics is careful and adds great dimension to the work (I suspect it would be easy to make it seem like a random-headline ransom demand instead, but you don't fall into that trap). I particularly like the jagged "speak" to imply something that isn't comfortable or easy. I do worry that "silence is deafening" is cliched, but I'm still so taken with the format that I find I don't really mind