“Blanco” is an intricately designed poem that embodies many postmodern traits, with its typography emphasizing the poem’s visual aspects. The poem begins with words spread out in three columns across the page. The text then forms a column that proceeds down the page, with the occasional staggering of lines. The single column then splits into a bold font on the left accompanied by an italicized font on the right. As the poem progresses, this pattern repeats four times, with the bold and italicized verses gradually drifting toward, and ultimately pressing against, one another. It was conceived as a continuum and was strip-printed in two colors with different fonts. It is bound like an accordion (with 30 leaves), which allows the reader to display the book in its entirety. The last leaf presents six possible ways to read the poem.
