Concrete Poetry

Nancy Perloff

ISBN 10: 178914776X / ISBN 13: 9781789147766

Published by Reaktion Books, GB, 2023

About this Item

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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Concrete Poetry
• Publisher: Reaktion Books, GB
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178914776X
• ISBN 13: 9781789147766
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.88W x 2.79H x 23.5D centimeters 15.88 centimeters width by 2.79 centimeters height by 23.5 centimeters depth

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Synopsis

'This is an exciting and engaging summary of an important and still misunderstood field, the value of which lies in the intelligence and sensitivity of Perloff's close readings.' - Burlington Contemporary

'This groundbreaking book finally legitimizes one of the most important – yet most neglected – strains of contemporary poetic practice.' - Kenneth Goldsmith, founding editor of UbuWeb

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.

About the Author

Nancy Perloff is Curator, Modern & Contemporary Collections at the Getty Research Institute (GRI). She is the author or editor of many books including Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art (2017).