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Froman, Robert, 1917-1994

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1917-05-25 - 1994-05-03

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Seeing Things / Froman, Robert., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-11764-11983
Scope and Contents

Froman defines seeing poems (concrete poems) as the outline of a light bulb which "...happens when when words take a shape that helps them to turn on a light in someone's mind." A few poems relating to breathing are included in the book such as "Superstink." This concrete poem depicts a bus at a stop, a start-up, followed by an engine backfire with a big cloud of pollutants released into the atmosphere causing a cacophony of cough, gasp, choke, sneeze, snuffle etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

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