In Shape with Verse

About the Book

A concrete poem is one where the words are typographically arranged to form either a geometric shape or a recognizable image. As an added feature, the image represents the subject of the poem. This book contains 50 of Ira’s poems, divided into 8 chapters as follows:

1. Simple Concrete Poems. Shows how to construct them.

2. Humor. Using puns, plays on words, and a strong rhythm.

3. Spoof on Love. Burlesque of the expression, “I love you.”

4. Boy and Girl Story. Twelve-year-old girl and boy.

5. Sights and Places. Voyage to see some interesting sites.

6. Private Lives. How people and animals adapt and cope with life.

7. Family. Child, parents, and grandparents.

8. Glimpses of History. From the Revolution to the Civil War.

About the Author

Ira Cochin worked as an engineer for 15 years in industry for such companies as Kearfott, and Bendix. Then he was a professor for 36 years at New Jersey Institute of Technology. During his professorship, Ira became blind and then deaf. He went for training at the Helen Keller Center for the Deaf-Blind. He became the world’s first deaf-blind professor to teach engineering. His accomplishments appeared in the New Jersey Supplement of the Sunday New York Times in December 18, 1977. Ira Cochin has written eleven novels, two technical books, and dozens of articles in various trade journals.