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DeCampos responds to a classification system proposed by Houedard by pointing out "visual organization of words, with an overemphasis on relations of proximity and resemblance between them, leads ineluctably to an equivalent overemphasis on sound, implying a dynamical use of paronomasia and alliteration that explains why Brazilian young musicians have been so much interested in many of our seeming eyepoems, and in the making of oral presentations for them." He states he wrote to Hugh Kennerabout Ezra Pound and received a sympathetic response. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Weiss' book, "Visual Voices: The Poem as a Print Object," 1994 consists of poems appropriated from ancient and classic poems that have been rearranged or altered in their presentation as typed artpoe to convey new meanings mainly based mainly on concrete poetic or conceptual text expressions. He provided an explanation for each of 71 poems published in the book as well as 28 unpublished poems in the typed manuscript. He classified his styles of typed artpoe with headings such as zipperpoem, caressed and overloved poem, telegram poem, etc. He altered poems from such stalwarts as Andrew Marvell, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning , Alfred Tennyson, and John Keats among others. VISUAL POETRY BY IRVING WEISS Team Sonnet: 14 Lines by 14 Different Canonical Poets from Visual Voices: The Poem As a Print Object Appease this virtuous enemy of man (MARVELL) The way which thou so well hast learn'd below, (DRYDEN) And dwell, as in my center, as I can, (JONSON) As into air the purer...