Modern Visual Poetry

This learned and thorough book offers a panorama of visual poetry, from Apollinaire's first "calligramme," published in Les Soirées de Paris the year World War I began, to the hyperpoetry and holopoems which, as the 20th century drew to a close, you could access easily on UbuWeb. It takes in the exuberant experiments of the Italian Futurists, the "ascetic exercises" of 1950s Concrete poets, and the Dada-inspired interventions of Lettrists during the 1960s

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