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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

5 x 1 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Simig, Pia Maria ; Clark TA ; Sackett C ; Gomringer E., 1999

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Identifier: CC-48025-69048
Scope and Contents

Colin Sackett printed this book. Thomas A. Clark provided a critical essay entitled "Landscape under the Stars" in which he indicates that Finlay rewrites Gomringer's "5 mal 1 konstellation" by substituting words from the pre-Raphaelite poet, Christina Rossetti. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Origins of British Experimental Poetry / Cobbing, Bob; Gomringer E; Houedard DS; Finlay IH; Morgan E; deMelo e Castro EM; Garnier P; Chopin H; Novak L; Fahlstrom O; Cox K; Williams J; Edmonds T., 1973

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Identifier: CC-17671-18039
Scope and Contents

Cobbing discusses the early concrete poems of Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Furnival, Kenelm Cox, Dom Sylvester Houedard, and Tom Edmonds in depth. This essay is unbpubished. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Pinget Ponge [For Wormwood Review Vol.1 No.14, page 17] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Gomringer E., 1964

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Identifier: CC-11883-12104
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This was Included in the Grant U. Roman Archive. According to a note at the bottom, this poem was composed "after Eugen Gomringer's 'ping pong.'" Wikipedia: Robert Pinget (Geneva, July 19, 1919 "“ Tours, August 25, 1997) was a major avant-garde French writer, born in Switzerland, who wrote several novels and other prose pieces that drew comparison to Beckett and other major Modernist writers. He was also associated with the nouveau roman movement. Francis Jean Gaston Alfred Ponge (27 March 1899 "“ 6 August 1988) was a French essayist and poet. Influenced by surrealism, he developed a form of prose poem, minutely examining everyday objects. He was the inaugural recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1974. P.O.T.H. 16 includes a poem by Ponge. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Six Concrete Poems / Brighton Festival; DeCampos A; Finlay IH; Gomringer E; Grunewald JL; Houedard DS; Ruhm G; Weaver M., 1967

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Identifier: CC-28021-29175
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The set contains one well-known concrete poem printed on a card of varied colored stock by each contributor. The loose sheet is a manifesto by Gomringer entitled "from line to constellation" which was first printed in Augenblick No.2. It has been translated into English by Mike Weaver. The set was presumably sold at the Brighton poetry festival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967