Scope and Contents This is the first edition, first printing. In the beginning of this book, traces the poets of concrete poetry country by country as follows: Switzerland, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Iceland, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, japan, France, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Mexico, Spain, Scotland, England, Canada, and United States. This is followed by a section dealing with manifestos by Gomringer, the Noigandres Group, Max Bense, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Henri Chopin, Paul De Vree, Jonathan Williams, and Ian Haimilton Finlay. The next section consists of concrete poems from from poets worldwide. Obituary: Mary Ellen Solt, 86; poet, poetry critic, By Mary Rourke, Times Staff Writer, June 29, 2007 Mary Ellen Solt, a poet and poetry critic who often arranged words on the page in a visual graphic, resulting in such works as "Forsythia," a poem that looks like a flowering shrub, has died. She was 86. Solt died June 21 at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Santa Clarita after...

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Bann discusses the history and development of the concrete poetry movement in this first broadly based collection of concrete poetry published in book form. Sections are devoted to Latin, Germanic and English poets. Particular attention is paid to pioneers such as Gomringer, the Brazilian Noigandres group and British poets Finlay and Morgan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition featured concrete poems with fragmented text. It included one visual poem by Toshihiko Schimuzu. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Beaulieu comments: an afterword after words: notes towards a concrete poetic.Despite over a century of poetic innovation since Stephane Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des Jamais n'Abolira le Hasard" (1896) & almost 50 years since the publication of Eugen Gomringer's manifesto "Concrete Poetry" (1956), there is still no accepted critical vocabulary for concrete poetry. Concrete poetry is often contextualized historically & is categorized as a subgenre of radicalized praxis from its predominantly modernist period in the 1950s through to the present. By reiterating this historical precedent -- a stridently modernist activity -- criticism on concrete poetry more often than not reifies the idea that this form is still in its infancy, requiring a citation of poetic precedent in order to justify its existence. Brion Gysin remarked that "writing is fifty years behind painting," an assertionevident in the cultural & critical reception for concrete poetry. Readings based upon...

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The thesis of this book is that Concrete Poems can e a basis for the learning of a forfeign language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Most of the poemsin this book are produced with hand lettering. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cluver analyzes the following Concrete Poems: Saroyan's "MM," Gomringer's "Silencio," Xisto's "Epithalamium II," Herrmann's "K8," Pignatari's "LIFE," Plaza's "Organismo Aureo," DeCampos' "Eis Os Amantes," Cage's "Chance: Change," and DeBarrios' "Lingua." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this extensive anthology, several examples of Constantine Xenakis' works are depicted; his work is represented in the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an anthology with definitions and examples of topics that include Riddles, Enigmas, Charades, Acrostics, Word Squares, Crosswords, Scrabble, Anagrams, Rebuses, Chronograms, Palindromes, Panagrams, Lipograms, Letter Games, Alphabet Games, Playing with Poetry, Concrete Poetry, Tongue Twisters, Spoonerisms, Lapsus Linguae, Games of Lewis Carroll, Consequences, Twenty Questions, Hangman, Puns, and The Longest Word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an anthology of contemporary concrete poetry mainly from German speaking poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue provides one of the most intellligent reviews of concrete and visual poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.