Words by Jesse Glass

3 words contributed

• usoku
  From the Japanese "uso"—meaning false, and "ku" meaning line or inscription.  The word Usoku is descriptive of attempts to apply and even to stretch the distinctly Japanese form of writing known as haiku to include forms of expression utterly alien to the original meaning of the term.  This includes attempts at writing "haiku" in Romance Languages—i.e. the misnomer of "English language haiku"—and absurd misapplications of the concept of haiku to graphic art as well as to pseudo-mathematical operations. 
  
  
  
  rec'd July 16, 2005
• visbitch
  VIZ bitch
  to really complain about the state of contemporary vispo
  Origin: < vispo (< visual poetry) + bitch (to complain)
  11/9/2002
• visedpo
  viz ED poe
  someone who teaches vis-ed., like Joel Lipman
  Origin: < visual education + visual poetry
  11/9/2002

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