Taxonomically, what is significant is that "Noise" is not labeled a visual poem but a painting. So it cannot be generalized that everyone calls mixtures of text and graphics "visual poems," so we also must. I would argue that many traditionalists in literature would also dispute that anything with graphics can be a "poem." Not that it matters to me, finally. To me what counts is whether it makes sense to call something a "visual poem." That question has nothing to do with who calls it that.

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