taipuisi
Taipuisi is a term used in contemporary poetry to describe a set of practices that foreground the materiality of text—how typography, spacing, and page layout participate in meaning alongside the words themselves. The term does not have a single, universally accepted definition and is used mainly in online discussions and among poets in Indonesian-language contexts to denote experimental work that treats the form of the page as an active element of the poem.
The word taipuisi appears to blend puisi, the Indonesian word for poetry, with a component suggesting typing
Taipuisi commonly features concise lines, unusual lineation, and deliberate white space. It often experiments with typographic
The definition and boundaries of taipuisi are informal, with references mainly arising in online communities and
Poetry, experimental poetry, visual poetry, typography in poetry, digital poetry.