Full Description
Now available in paperback, 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, including the little-known Japanese concretists, the Wiener Gruppe, Augusto de Campos, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Eugen Gomringer, Dieter Roth, Henri Chopin, Cia Rinne, Susan Howe and many others. 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.
Contents
AUTHOR'S NOTE
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
AUGUSTO DE CAMPOS
GERHARD RUEHM
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY
BRAZIL
AUSTRIA
JAPAN
UNITED KINGDOM
SWITZERLAND
GERMANY AND FRANCE
UNITED STATES AND CANADA
POSTLUDE
BIOGRAPHIES
REFERENCES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS