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Reading Visual Poetry
Willard Bohn
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Description for Reading Visual Poetry
Hardback. Reading Visual Poetry examines works created in Spain, Latin America, France, Italy, Brazil, and the United States. Besides explicating individual works, it investigates the dynamics involved in reading (and viewing) visual poetry. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Visual poetry can be defined as poetry that is meant to be seen. Combining painting and poetry, it attempts to synthesize the principles underlying each discipline. Visual poems are immediately recognizable by their refusal to adhere to a rectilinear grid and by their tendency to flout their plasticity. In contrast to traditional poetry, they are conceived not only as literary works but also as works of art. Although they continue to provide visual cues that aid in deciphering the text, they function simultaneously as visual compositions. Whether the visual elements form a rudimentary pattern or whether they constitute a highly ... Read more
Visual poetry can be defined as poetry that is meant to be seen. Combining painting and poetry, it attempts to synthesize the principles underlying each discipline. Visual poems are immediately recognizable by their refusal to adhere to a rectilinear grid and by their tendency to flout their plasticity. In contrast to traditional poetry, they are conceived not only as literary works but also as works of art. Although they continue to provide visual cues that aid in deciphering the text, they function simultaneously as visual compositions. Whether the visual elements form a rudimentary pattern or whether they constitute a highly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611470628
SKU
V9781611470628
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About Willard Bohn
Willard Bohn is distinguished professor emeritus of French and comparative literature at Illinois State University.
Reviews for Reading Visual Poetry
The title here is literal. Bohn provides readings of notable 'concrete' poems—poems formatted into a picture or visual design (kinetic digital as well as static print) rather than standard lineated text—from a range of modern literary moments and orbits (Spanish, French, Italian, and Brazilian). The author traces neither the history nor principles of the literary movement as such, nor the ... Read more