“Un Coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard”  or A Throw of the Dice will never Abolish Chance, is an example of visual poetry, created in 1897 by French artist Stéphane Mallarmé. This artwork is made of black text printed within the white pages of a book that measures around ten inches along its spine, and with a page width of a little over six inches. The book is open, displayed resting on its spine with its interior pages facing outward. On the visible pages are the words of Mallarme’s poem, printed in French in a variety of different typefaces and typography. Instead of repeating lines of text separated into paragraphs, the words of Mallarmé’s poems are arranged in a visually random order. One line may contain one word, centered on the page, followed but several lines of blank paper. Then a phrase is printed flush left, while the following line of text may be flush right. Some words are printed using different typefaces, in larger font sizes, or in all capitals. Taken altogether, the varied lines of text and letter forms and sizes creates a page of text that undulates with abrupt starts and endings of printed text. Where prose follows strict rules of grammar and punctuation, poetry is looser by comparison. “Un Coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard”  furthers the loosening of grammatical rules by visually playing with the placement of text to create a visual poem.