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Ads by Google Related Topics meter poetry British Poetry Revival Modernist poetry Chinese poetry English poetry Performance poetry Limerick poetry concrete poetry      Concrete poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The term was coined in the 1950s, and in 1956 an international exhibition of concrete poetry was shown in São Paulo, inspired by the work of Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Although the term is quite modern, the idea of using typography to enhance the meaning of a poem is an old one. [1] Visual Poetry in El Taller de Zenón http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_poetry   (475 words)      Poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Poetry was employed as a means of recording oral history, storytelling (epic poetry), genealogy, and law. Samuel Taylor Coleridge defined poetry as "The best words in the best order." Carl Sandburg said that "poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.", while Robert Frost stated that "Poetry is the first thing lost in translation". Robinson Jeffers, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams were three notable poets who rejected the idea that meter was a critical element of poetry, claiming it was an unnatural imposition into poetry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry   (1573 words)      U B U W E B :: Concrete Poetry -- A World View : Introduction The term "concrete poetry" is now being used to refer to a variety of innovations and experiments following World War II which are revolutionizing the art of the poem on a global scale and enlarging its possibilities for expression and communication. If the artist were not a poet he might be moved by the same emotions and ideas to make a painting (if he were a painter), a piece of sculpture (if he were a sculptor), a musical composition (if he were a composer). Concrete poets, then, are united in their efforts to make objects or compositions of sounds from particular materials. http://www.ubu.com/papers/solt/intro.html   (797 words)      Concrete Poetry Concrete poetry had been developed independently a few years earlier, by Swedish artist Öyvind Fahlström who wrote a Manifesto for Concrete Poetry in 1953 [11] to describe a poetry which intended to use words much as a painter would use representational forms. The term concrete poetry was coined simultaneously in the early fifties by Eugen Gomringer in Switzerland and Öyvind Fahlström in Sweden [1]. At the same time as Gomringer was developing poetry emphasizing the visual aspects of words, a group of three poets in Brazil, Haroldo de Campos, Augusto de Campos and Décio Pignatari formed the group Noigandres [9]. http://cotati.sjsu.edu/spoetry/ng1.html   (325 words)      Concrete Poetry: Links, Books, Indexes, and Info.   By Michael P. Garofalo.     . Concrete Poetry: Tension of Things-Words in Space-Time (A Manifesto 1956) Joshi - As a Poet - Concrete Poetry Floating Stone The Art and Poetry of Susumu Takiguchi. http://www.gardendigest.com/concrete/concr1.htm   (2577 words)      Concrete Poetry: References and Notes Van Doesburg's poetry in the guise of Bonset, was made up of mathematical symbols and numbers as well as phonemes and letters printed in a unique typographical style. Particularly there is his The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry which he wrote with Ernest Fenollosa and published in the journal Instigations in London in 1920. 4 Though "figurative verse" was nothing new (see [8]) in poetry, Guillaume Apollinaire radically expanded the possibilities of this way of working with pieces which he called Calligrammes, which were poems that visually imitated the meaning of the words which were used in them. http://cotati.sjsu.edu/spoetry/folder1/ng1a.html   (819 words)      minimalist concrete poetry The visual element in their poetry tended to be structural, a consequence of the poem, a "picture" of the lines of force of the work itself, and not merely textural. But the makers of the new poetry in the early fifties were not antiquarians, nor were they specifically seeking the intermedium between poetry and painting, the apparent goal fo so many of their followers. It was a poetry far beyond paraphrase, a poetry of direct presentation--the word, not words, words, words or expressionistic squiggles--using the semantic, visual and phonetic elements of the past. http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry   (1910 words)      minimalist concrete poetry: endwar Archives I have a particular interest in the traditional poetry produced by poets who are effective producers of non-traditoinal poetry. typewriter concrete poems (with the exception of the final poem) that look to have been done with an actual typewriter, but many (though not all) of the poems rely on more than just the spacial arrangement facilities offered by a fixed pitch font, or the contextualizing power of the carefully chosen title. So I talked about it a little with Geof Huth, mostly by offering up a couple of examples of his own work that I felt were representative of the kinds of things I was visualizing and then asking him what he calls them. http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/archives/cat_endwar.html   (1397 words)      Performance Poetry Links The term ‘concrete poetry’ is generally used to refer to a variety of innovations and experiments following WW2 which revolutionised the art of poetry on a global scale and enlarged the possibilities for expression and communication. They added examples of typewriter art and poetry, experimental calligraphy, correspondence art, stamp art, sound poetry, performance poetry, etc., as well as conventional poetry and prose written by concrete/visual poets and artists in the collection. This site celebrates his amazing contribution to Australian "performance poetry" and poetry in general by offering a selection of his poems (as read by him), from his book, POEMS of war & peace. http://www.suite101.com/links.cfm/4847   (6445 words)      Poetry Form - The Concrete Poem In general, concrete poetry attempts to give its audience the more immediate experience of art that is achieved by viewers of art or hearers of music. The following Concrete (or Pattern) Poem was first published in 2002 in Runes Review of Poetry: Mystery, Editors CB Follett and Susan Terris. In the 1950's poets in Switzerland and Sweden and Brazil started, independently, to develop "Concrete Poetry" (partly as an adaptation of "concrete painting", a minor European school of the 1940's). http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/concrete.htm   (663 words)      CONCRETE POETRY IN ANALOG AND DIGITAL MEDIA by Roberton Simanowski For example, Wolfgang Ernst considers the “optical poetry” (“optische Dichtung”) of the Baroque period, especially labyrinth poems and artistic reading-parcours, to be rooted in the attitude of mannerism (211f.). Note Emmett William’s focus on poetry rather than concrete and his objection against the de-emphasization of poetry by too strong analogies of concrete poetry to the visual arts (Williams, V). In oral form they would lose their design, they are to see or, as Franz Mon entitled one of his essays on concrete poetry, they are “Poesie der Fläche” (poetry of space). http://www.brown.edu/Research/dichtung-digital/2003/parisconnection/concretepoetry.htm   (7271 words)      Jacket 15 - Ian Hamilton Finlay in conversation with Nagy Rashwan Indeed, his break with the discursive linear poetry in his first collection of concrete poetry Rapel (1963) was followed by another shift from concrete poetry’s paginated limits into the wider horizons of the land, the sea, and the literally structured word. For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don’t have control over whether this feeling is in me or not. This reminds me of your response to John J. Sharkey when he asked you to contribute to his anthology of concrete poetry ‘Mindplay’ of 1971when you replied that you didn’t feel involved in what was happening then [Note 9]. http://jacketmagazine.com/15/rash-iv-finlay.html   (5284 words)      Untitled Document Thesis: "Concretism, one of the most radical avant-garde trends of this century engaged in a critical reevaluation of the artistic object and its place in society, had a new way of looking at and reading tradition. It was a forerunner of later neo-baroque and post-modern trends." Please give your evaluation or judgment of this artist's perspective from an artist's participant's point of view, as it relates to your own work or poetics, or to your critical judgment of concretist experimentation. I don't think that either of the expressions - "neobaroque" or "postmodern" - are sufficiently adequate to characterize the actual moment in its possible relations with Concrete poetry. http://www.imediata.com/BVP/texts/english/yaletext.html   (591 words)      Perihelion The concrete poetry movement of the 1950s and 1960s had its roots both in Surrealism and Dada and prior to that in the writings of the French symbolists, especially Apollinaire. Consider this poem by Gomringer, the father of concrete poetry, which can be read or felt along any of its axes. Consider this example of Apollinaire where he has used his own handwriting to make the letters of his figure. http://www.heelstone.com/wherewewere/p-theory.htm   (1310 words)      Concrete Poems A concrete poem is one that takes the shape of the object it describes. http://oregonstate.edu/~smithc/vita/concrpoe.html   (23 words)      ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Discovering Poetic Form and Structure Using Concrete Poems In a concrete poem, the placement of words on the page is related to the meaning of the poem. One of the underlying goals of exploring these poems is to demystify poetry, and writing in general. As Albert B. Somers explains in his Teaching Poetry in High School, concrete poems are "fun and easy" (135). http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=211   (1804 words)      Mail Art Pathfinder : Visual and Concrete Poetry In concrete poetry the words or letters of the poem are arranged to form images that add meaning to the text. Its initial mission was to establish a collection of books, critical texts, periodicals, ephemera, prints, drawings, collages, paintings, sculptures, objects, manuscripts, and correspondence dealing with precursory and contemporary, internationally produced, concrete and visual poetry. An interesting way to explore their collections is to browse the catalog by image, with the Thumbnails option selected. http://www.infomuse.net/kristina/courses/605pathfinder/Poetry.shtml   (269 words)      ALA Internet Resources: E-poetry • Visual poetry: print and electronic gestalt-oriented art form in which visual elements, such as typography, calligraphy, painting, photography and drawing, are co-mingled with words to form poems. This journal is dedicated to publishing poetry, as well as interviews with poets, essays, and book reviews. This is just one example of what many blogs are like; a place for poets to publish poems, write articles, and share enthusiasm for the art form. http://ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2003/april1/epoetry.htm   (1324 words)      JDC-Concrete: A History of writing Concerning Calligrammes they are an idealisation of free verse poetry and a typographic precision at a time when typography terminates brilliantly its career, at the dawn of new means of reproduction which are film and the phonograph. If the history of humanity can be divided into two great eras: before writing and after the invention of writing, then concrete poetry is at the dawn of a new age or maybe somewhere in between. Perhaps because of pure inertia typography did not disappear with the advent of film and the phonograph, but calligrammmes, revealed a refreshing link between writing, poetry, art, and music that was unsuspected. http://jdc-concrete.com/HISTORY.HTM   (2393 words)      Lesson 1 - Concrete Poetry · Students will create their own concrete poetry by first writing a poem about a certain object (patterns for certain objects will be provided) and then shaping the poem to show the object. They will first write the poem on a lined piece of paper and then, once they have proofread it and like what they wrote, they will trace a pattern and rewrite their poem on the outline of a pattern. · Students will be read certain poems from a poetry book and be asked to describe the poem's contents to demonstrate that they understand what concrete poetry is. http://www.siue.edu/~catcart/demonstrationlesson.htm   (360 words)      poems that GO In it, he described a poetry in which the words were used in the way a painter would use representational forms. But it wasn't until the early fifties that the term "concrete poetry" was coined. He spatially arranged each word so that the placement of the word represented the poem's meaning and called his word placements "constellations." Swedish artist Öyvind Fahlström wrote a Manifesto for Concrete Poetry in 1953. http://www.poemsthatgo.com/gallery/winter2004/print_article.htm   (633 words)      Results in Employing eccentric typography and a playfully deconstructive approach to language, Brazilian concrete poetry is intensely visual, a vigorous hybrid of literature and art that avails itself of many other mediums besides the printed page. In concrete language: Brazil's thriving visual poetry tradition was the focus of a recent exhibition in Austin. The exhibition was organized by Regina Vater, a Brazilian-born, Austin-based artist who did an impressive job of assembling contributions by some 50 artists, as well as creating an installation work of her own that enriched and illuminated the show. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_5_90/ai_86194960   (306 words)      [No title] Tell students that in addition to the importance of word choice in poetry, because poetry is painting a picture, it’s also important to think about how the words look on a page, especially with concrete poetry. As we discussed, a concrete poem is a poem that takes the shape of an object the poem is about. Name:___________________________ Period:_______________ CONRETE POEM BRAINSTORM Date:_________________________ DRAFT DUE FRIDAY 11/14 What is a concrete poem? http://depts.washington.edu/ctltstaf/example_portfolios/williams/artifacts/127605.doc   (891 words)      Concrete Poetry Writing a concrete poem is like creating a picture with words instead of paint or pencils or markers. There are NO pictures in a concrete poem. Lisa started this poem by noticing a flower in her garden. http://www.babinlearn.com/concrete_poetry.htm   (229 words)      Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Poetry: Interactive BBC Online Art Zone Poetry - Visual poetry, poetry games, a resident poet as well as audio clips of poets reading their own works from the BBC archives. A convocation of digital poets and artists to focus on the state of art of digital poetry. Snakeskin - Poetry magazine specialized in hypertext and intertext works. http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Poetry/Interactive   (718 words)      CMLT C356 0991 Concrete poetry These "Concrete" poems and other forms of 20th-century visual poetry have close connections to certain kinds of avant-garde painting and music; they can also be related to the interplay of words and images in modern adv ertising. In the 1950s there arose a movement in Western literature that relied on letter shapes (and sometimes colors) and on the careful placement of individual words (or single letters) on the page to create "poems" that at the same time no longer relied on conventional grammar and syntax. It will finally take a brief look at the much longer tradition of Western visual poetry and at its relations to visual poetry in other cultures. http://www.indiana.edu/~deanfac/blspr98/cmlt/cmlt_c356_0991.html   (395 words)      The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry - Welcome They added examples of typewriter art and poetry, experimental calligraphy, correspondence art, stamp art, sound poetry, performance poetry, micrography, assembling periodicals, ‘zines,’ and graphic design as well as conventional poetry and prose written by concrete/visual poets and artists in the collection. Its initial mission was to establish a collection of books, critical texts, periodicals, ephemera, prints, drawings, collages, paintings, sculptures, objects, manuscripts, and correspondence dealing with precedent and contemporary, internationally produced, concrete and visual poetry. Further, they collected experimental typographic, text and image works from such contemporary art movements as Fluxus, Transfuturism, and Inism. http://www.rediscov.com/sackner.htm   (1658 words)      Marjorie Perloff on Haraldo de Campos This parodic catalogue of standard medical excuses produced by the parent for the teacherI especially like "She was sick and I had her shot," "she was having a gangover," and "she was bothered by very close veins"is nothing if not a verbovisivocal construct. Language is just as important to Waldrop as it is to Haroldo de Campos, only for her, as for the Wittgenstein she cites in her Endpaper, "Poetry [is] an alternate, less linear logic." "Wittgenstein," she writes, "makes language with its ambiguities the ground of philosophy. The Stein influence on the prose poem, which would be the subject of another essay, has to do with the way repetition and permutation of monosyllabic and disyllabic words creates visual as well as verbal patterning. http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/perloff/perloff_decampos.html   (5707 words)      Picture Poems; Concrete Poetry; typographic patterning; literary history; Mannerism; Metaphysical Poetry; ... This is one reason for mannerist styles to recur in cultural and social periods in which more than one scale of values prevail. Picture Poems; Concrete Poetry; typographic patterning; literary history; Mannerism; Metaphysical Poetry; signifier-signified; Cognitive Poetics; calligrams; phonetic patterning. Keywords: Picture Poems; Concrete Poetry; typographic patterning; literary history; Mannerism; Metaphysical Poetry; signifier-signified; Cognitive Poetics; calligrams; phonetic patterning. http://www.tau.ac.il/~tsurxx/Picture_Poem_abstract.html   (338 words)      Chapter 17: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami Beach The works of individuals including Kurt Schwitters, Henri Chopin, Dom Sylvester Houedard, William Jay Smith, and others was created on manual typewriters, instruments already foreign to a generation of young poets and artists. Fortunato Depero, a second generation Italian futurist painter, typographer, poet and sculptor, designed a catalog for the aperitif company, Campari. Peintures de Leopold Survage, dessins et aquarelles d’Irene Lagut: premiere exposition des "soirees de Paris": catalogue avec deux prefaces de Guillaume Apollinaire, chez Madame Bongard, 5, Rue de Penthievre du 21 au 31 Janvier 1917. http://www.library.miami.edu/treasure/chapters/chaptr17.html   (917 words)      U B U W E B Aram Saroyan Feature: UbuWeb celebrates the groundbreaking 1960s concrete poetry of Aram Saroyan by hosting The Street, a film based on Saroyan's life during that period. Saroyan chronicles his making of these poems in his essay Flower Power and his historical postition is noted in Mary Ellen Solt's 1968 "Concrete Poetry: A World View : United States" in UbuWeb Papers. You can browse Kriwet's prescient visual works in UbuWeb's Historical section. http://www.ubu.com   (1194 words)      Electronic Poetry Center Turkish Poetry Homepage A comprehensive source for Turkish poetry and Turkish poetry in translation. Brazillian Visual Poetry Brazilian visual poets and their work. Small Press Collective The Small Press Collective is a centrally-linked group of autonomous editorial projects engaged in print and online publication of recent work in poetry, poetics, and cultural criticism. http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/connects/poetrywebs.html   (712 words)      CONCRETE POETRY: A WORLD VIEW Included are discussions and defenses by poets of more recent developments such as Spatialisme as defined by Pierre Garnier of France and of new genres such as type poems, typewriter poems, tape recorder poems, kinetic poems, and object poems. The editor has selected over one hundred thirty concrete poems and texts, many of them in color, giving the reader a widely representative selection of the work being done by concrete poets throughout the world. Modern poets, from a symbolism to surrealism (and, in English, among others and mainly cummings and Pound) have made a criticism of poetic discourse within the discourse, within a poem. http://web.whittier.edu/barnstone/CONCRETEPOETRY.HTM   (267 words)      English 88, Modern and Contemporary American Poetry Cid Corman on his "This Is Poetry" broadcast, 1952 a reading from her poetry and a discussion of relations between innovative poetry and experimental teaching - recording of a program webcast Wednesday, February 28, 2001, at the Kelly Writers House Jed Rasula, excerpt from an essay entitled "The Empire's New Clothes: Anthologizing American Poetry in the 1990s" http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/home.html   (2569 words)      [New-Poetry] The Lessons of Concrete Poetry -- one last time? I worry that the visual elements in most of my paintshop pieces are simply ornamental, and that many of these pieces are not visual poetry. The more recent works done in PainShop extend, in my opinion, right smack into the realm of vis-po and, indeed, go beyond vis-po and could, I think, be considered works of digital art first and foremost (working backward into vis-po and into concrete, which to say they've taken on a whole other pedigree). > Following Bob's mathemaku work we see, or so I do maintain, the conctruction of a bridge from and out of the concrete into vis-po. http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/pipermail/new-poetry/2005-June/041971.html   (993 words)      [No title] "In the first decades of the century the daily newspapers in New York were full of poetry, too: there were columns devoted to light verse, and often a theatre review or sports notice would be written in couplets or quatrains." John Tranter; He's Got Rhythm; The Australian (Sydney); Mar 30, 1996. -Charles Bukowski, writer (1920-1994) concrete poetry (KON-kreet PO-i-tree, kon-KREET -) noun Poetry that employs physical arrangement of words or letters on a page for visual effect to add to the meaning of the poem. [From Latin cento (patchwork).] "(John) Ashbery includes in Wakefulness one poem explicitly produced by collage, though not from his own writing, the cento `The Dong with the Luminous Nose.'" Vernon Shetley; The New York School of Poetry; Raritan (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Spring 1999. http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/archives/0403   (4654 words)      Omniseek: /Arts & Humanities /Poetry /Contemporary /Visual and Concrete Poetry / devoted to visual poetry and other modern art. Among other distinctions, Lettrisme was the art form of the 1968 French Students' Movement that came close to bringing about a revolution. http://www.omniseek.com/srch/{13278}   (635 words)      Cement Concrete and Aggregates - 171AL - Concrete poetry Cement Concrete and Aggregates Australia has published a new book on concrete architecture in Australia by award-winning architecture writer and critic Joe Rollo. The book is lavishly illustrated with black and white and colour photographs by leading photographers such as Max Dupain, David Moore and John Gollings. A sculptured concrete artwork that pays tribute to... http://www.infolink.com.au/articles/21/0C028A21.aspx   (173 words)      ¤å¦r¨ã¶H Wenzi Concrete - - - chinese character art - concrete poetry ¤å¦r¨ã¶H Wenzi Concrete - - - chinese character art - concrete poetry http://www.sinologic.com/concrete   (12 words)      Connections: Poetry: Forms: Concrete Poetry Many writers and critics apply the phrase "concrete poetry" only to a much narrower range of works, such as a school of visual poetry produced primarily in the 1950s and 60s by artists who emphasized extreme originality, uniqueness of structure, and abstraction of form. By that definition, concrete poetry includes works from certain Classical and Renaissance poems (including, famously, George Herbert's " Easter Wings") to contemporary online compositions such as Dan Waber's "Arms." Broadly defined, concrete poetry is poetry in which the visual presentation of a poem creates a major part of the poem's meaning. http://www.math.grin.edu/~simpsone/Connections/Poetry/Forms/concret1.html   (127 words)      Nasaexplores Concrete poetry is an artistic expression of written language. Even though the visual pattern (shape) can really catch our eye, it is the language itself that makes a poem poetic. Concrete poets make designs out of letters and words. http://www.nasaexplores.com/show_k4_teacher_st.php?id=030110154711   (263 words)      Forms of Poetry for Children Ballads are narrative poetry [tells a story] set to music. [Mother Goose] [Poems Set to Music] [Limericks] [Free Verse] [Haiku] [Cinquains] [Concrete Poetry] [Ballads] [Couplets] [Other Forms, As Diamante [Writing Poetry] The Read to Write Project : Lyric Poetry http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/poeform.htm   (395 words)      Concrete Poetry: Kalliope Poetry Exercise Workshop "Concrete poetry" refers to poetry where the text itself forms a visible picture on the page. Now why would anyone want to write poetry in concrete? This has become a popular device with the growth of visual mediums, from television to the World Wide Web, but poets have been using it since words started being put on paper. http://anitraweb.org/kalliope/concrete.html   (358 words)      Concrete Poetry The pattern of the letters illustrate the meaning of the poem. Even if you don't want your poems to be posted, you can give us your ideas below. A concrete poem is a poem based on the spacing of words. http://www.magicglade.com/game4.htm   (335 words)      ConcretePoetrySites Brad Burg - poems and songs There are some wonderful sites on the Internet concerning graphic--or concrete--poetry, and/or including some of such poetry. For example: "Following Jacques Derrida, who deconstructs the 'post' in postmodernism, [the critic Stephen Scobie] concludes that 'Concrete Poetry, although its basic orientation is modernist and metaphoric, unravels into postmodern metonymy.' " From a review of Scobie's Earthquakes and Explorations: Language and Painting from Cubism to Concrete Poetry, by Jack Steward in ** Authorities agree that the term "concrete poetry" dates from the 1950s (though the concept, like most concepts, has precursors--for instance, George Herbert's work). http://www.bradburg.com/ConcretePoetrySites.html   (324 words)      Concrete / Picture Poetry Yet even to this day, it is one aspect of poetry which is rarely been taken seriously by the publishers of poetry collections, but hopefully with the arrival computerised file transfers, it will soon become more of an acceptible art. Ever since I was a child, I have loved and admired poets who have written concrete or picture poetry. http://www.andrewhide.4t.com/custom4.html   (241 words)      Concrete Poetry This film presents nine poems, selected from "An Anthology of Concrete Poetry." Emphasizing the visual rather than the linguistic element of the words, this film adds an entirely new dimension to the definition of poetry. In the early 70's film was used to interpret poetry in a new way, visually as well as in written form. http://pyramidmedia.com/item.php3?title_id=1069&list=2149,2150,2151,1334,1...   (64 words)      Janee's Gallery -- Concrete Poetry Concrete Poetry is an art form in which the object itself is not a metaphor, not an abstraction, rather it is what it represents. I think that my best ones as far as examples of concrete poetry are concerned are "Yes and no" and "Screwup". A note to Photoshoppers: If you want to see a tutorial on any of these effects, let me know and i might make one for you. http://www.myjanee.com/gallery/concrete.htm   (131 words)      Roberto Simanowski: Concrete Poetry in Digital Media This essay discusses the aesthetic concept of concrete poetry and places the subject into the ongoing discussion of "software-art" and the aesthetic of the spectacle. It begins with a look back to the predecessors of concrete poetry in print media before introducing to examples of concrete poetry in digital media. Does the play with the symbolic orders of language question social patterns as in concrete poetry in the 1960s? http://www.brown.edu/Research/dichtung-digital/2004/3-Simanowski.htm   (136 words)      Concrete poetry - Word art In a broader sense I suppose WORD ART falls into the Poetry category. Although CONCRETE POETRY is listed as a contemporary genre, it has been around for over 80 years and is closely associated to Visual Poetry. This isolation of words gives the individual letters more significance and much of my work is focused on letters and letter shapes. http://www.thewordproject.com/wordart.htm   (787 words)

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