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10 May 2005: What follows is my very preliminary list of burstnorm devices I believe Cummings either invented or pioneered in the use of:
1. Infraverbal Vandalism�-anti-orthographically repeating, rearranging, adding or subtracting textemes to a text.
(Note: a �texteme,� in my poetics, is any textual symbol,
2. Intra-Syllabic Punctuation--inserting commas, exclamation marks, parentheses, etc., into syllables.
3. Lexicalization of Paramorphemes, or punctuation marks and the like.
4. Infraverbal Fusion�combining textemes from two or more words.
5. Disconcealment�-doing something to a word or phrase that reveals one or more aesthetically-meaningful words within it.
6. Text-Weave�-weaving parts of one sentence or line through another snetence or line, usually via intra-parenthesization).
7. Syllabreaks--spaces or other textual elements inserted into syllables that don�t belong.
8. Case-Reversal�-unconventionally changing the case of letters: Miscapitalization and Decapitalization.
9. Text-Scatter--taking words, parts of words, etc., out of sentences or lines and putting them in various other places on the page.
10. Texteme Rhyme--arranging pairs of identical or similar textemes so as to highlight their looking identical or nearly the same.
11. Exploitation of Negative-Space.
12. Visiophoration, or creating a visiophor, or visual metaphor for some significant portion of a poem�s text.
13. Syntax-Disruption.
14. Speech-Part Manipulation.
Some of the items above belong in a single category, and I'm far from satisfied with most of my names for them. I'm sure their are devices I've missed, too.
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