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ISBN-10: 1789143683
ISBN-13: 9781789143683
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Publish Date: 01/13/2022
Dimensions: 10.20" L, 11.80" W, 1.20" H

Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology

Edited byNancy Perloff

Hardcover

Price: $35.00

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Now in paperback, a significant new collection of concrete poetry that redefines what this unique literary movement means today.

Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology is the first overview of concrete poetry in many years. Selective yet wide-ranging, this anthology re-evaluates the movement, singling out its most distinctive and influential works. Nancy Perloff, the curator of an important Concrete Poetry exhibition at the Getty Research Institute, includes examples from the little-known Japanese concretists and the Wiener Gruppe–groups that, together with the Brazilian poet Augusto de Campos and the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, have engaged with the most subtle possibilities of language itself–while also incorporating key poems by Eugen Gomringer, Dieter Roth, Henri Chopin, and others and including contemporary contributions by Cia Rinne and Susan Howe.

Perloff’s anthology presents individual poems, reproduced in their original languages, together with lively commentaries that explicate and contextualize the work, allowing readers to discover the intricacy of poems that some have dismissed as simple, even trivial, texts. This substantial new collection redefines what the concrete poetry movement means today.

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"Perloff's lively style and tone in this book help to give new life to old forms, conveying something of the sense of adventure felt among those of us still young enough to remember being part of this postwar cultural movement. Written in a highly accessible way, with a fine choice of accompanying poems, it's a book to generate new interest as well as to inform existing initiates."–Hansjörg Mayer, poet, typographer, and publisher
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Details

ISBN-10: 1789143683
ISBN-13: 9781789143683
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Publish Date: 01/13/2022
Dimensions: 10.20" L, 11.80" W, 1.20" H
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