metaverbal
(met' uh VUR bul)
adj. Visual and Alphaconceptual Poetry taken together (the former
being partially vislational, the latter entirely textual, but the two
being related to each other in that each results from some
manipulation of its letters--is, in other words, subverballys
produced, or produced at the level of letters rather than at the level
of words.
being partially vislational, the latter entirely textual, but the two
being related to each other in that each results from some
manipulation of its letters--is, in other words, subverballys
produced, or produced at the level of letters rather than at the level
of words.
Origin: [From "meta," in the sense of "along with," and "verbal."][rec'd October 22, 1989]