This freaking cover is giving me synesthesia. Between this one and Granny the Worm, I’m starting to wonder if I missed the “have your 7-y.o. create your book cover” trend.
Eh, I’ll go ahead and say that I think this cover is fine.
Naaman Brown
10 years ago
The title “Poet’s Tongue” and an eye w/o lashes evokes in my mind’s eye the subgenre of horror art showing eyeballs peeking out of pairs of lips. But that’s just me I guess.
That’s the eye.
Maybe that’s what spirit tongues look like.
Oh, you mean like how when you’re on LDS you can taste colors and see tastes?
Or like those people that see numbers or letters as colors?
Could be. That last one, The Girl Who Saw Words, is apparently about synesthesia, so this one could be too.
This freaking cover is giving me synesthesia. Between this one and Granny the Worm, I’m starting to wonder if I missed the “have your 7-y.o. create your book cover” trend.
Unfortunately, this was created by an adult. Children’s drawings are rarely this trippy.
When mentioning effects of LDS remember whose blog we’re on.
Hey, Kirk made that same mistake.
That’s the worst-drawn tongue I’ve ever seen.
Eh, I’ll go ahead and say that I think this cover is fine.
The title “Poet’s Tongue” and an eye w/o lashes evokes in my mind’s eye the subgenre of horror art showing eyeballs peeking out of pairs of lips. But that’s just me I guess.
As disturbing as it sounds, that would’ve made a better cover.