Concrete Poetry
Title
Concrete Poetry
Subject
Concrete poetry
artist book
Poetry
Description
As April winds down Decker is celebrating National Poetry Month by bringing out some of its concrete poetry collections! Concrete poetry uses words to create forms on the page. When it comes to artist books, this combination of text and image lends itself especially to unique interpretations.
Many of the items on display here are part of the AMBruno: words project, described by Holland Cotter as “visually wild, inscrutable and weird.” Words are employed in these works less as symbolic signifiers of meaning, and more as visual cues to create new forms on the page.
Dana Atchley’s 1969 visual interpretation of Jonathan William’s Six Rusticated Wall-Eyed Poems is another exemplar of visual interpretation and the manipulation of space. Oversized, colorful and punchy, these pieces lend a new feeling to Williams’ words.
Concrete poetry blends traditional poetic meaning and graphic design techniques to create new works. We hope it inspires all our patrons this month to play with old words in novel forms.
Many of the items on display here are part of the AMBruno: words project, described by Holland Cotter as “visually wild, inscrutable and weird.” Words are employed in these works less as symbolic signifiers of meaning, and more as visual cues to create new forms on the page.
Dana Atchley’s 1969 visual interpretation of Jonathan William’s Six Rusticated Wall-Eyed Poems is another exemplar of visual interpretation and the manipulation of space. Oversized, colorful and punchy, these pieces lend a new feeling to Williams’ words.
Concrete poetry blends traditional poetic meaning and graphic design techniques to create new works. We hope it inspires all our patrons this month to play with old words in novel forms.
Creator
Allison Fischbach, Decker Library
Date
2019-04-15
Rights
Photograph by Decker Library. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For digital surrogates utilize the rights statement provided by DIU.
Language
English
Files
Collection
Citation
Allison Fischbach, Decker Library, “Concrete Poetry,” Decker Library Exhibits and Displays, accessed April 19, 2024, https://deckerlibrary.omeka.net/items/show/80.