ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how the workings of these theoretical concepts play out in two poetry imagetexts with words by Sheree Fitch: Merry-Go-Day and Night Sky Wheel Ride. It examines the expression of Sheree Fitch's poems in the "graphic space of the typographic page". The importance of typography and design in the visual performativity of a poem is particularly evident in comparisons between Fitch's original manuscript and the published picture book, Night Sky Wheel Ride. The chapter also examines the graphic spaces of individual pages as ecosystems in which both the physical page spaces and the story spaces combine through the process of interanimation to open a third theoretical space. In poetry imagetext, the narrative space is created through readers' interactions with the segmentivity and visual performativity of poetic line in the ecosystem of each page.
