Visual , Concrete and Sound Poetry
The sound of poetry, the poetry of soundISBN: 9789874019066Click title above for details, call number, and library location(s)
Sound—one of the central elements of poetry—finds itself all but ignored in the current discourse on lyric forms. The essays collected here by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkinbreak that critical silence to readdress some of the fundamental connections between poetry and sound—connections that go far beyond traditional metrical studies.
- UbuWeb: Visual PoetryUbuWeb's Visual Poetry section exposes little-seen exemplars of historical praxis and models of contemporary insight to a wider audience. This section includes anthologies, ephemeral publications, criticism and sporadic journals dedicated to visual poetry.
- What is Concrete Poetry (Getty Research Institute)Exhibition at the Getty Research Institute highlights poems made for eyes and ears.
- Women in Concrete Poetry (Poetry Society of America)An excerpt from the Introduction to Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979 (Primary Information, 2020).
- Word hoards: masterpieces of concrete poetry – in pictures (The Guardian)Poets such as Ian Hamilton Finlay and Augusto de Campos have shaken words out of standard verse structure and rearranged them in striking, enigmatic new forms. Here are some of the teasing, amusing and vivid results.