Visual and Digital Poetry, Week 3
Whether marks, strokes, signs, glyphs, letters, or characters, writing's visual forms possess an irresolvably dual identity in their material existence as images and their function as elements of language. - Johanna Drucker, Figuring the Word
VISUAL POETRY - WEEK THREE
How does concrete poetry develop in digital media? What is its intention? What is the meaning behind it? Does it aim to free the work from its representational function towards the “purely visual”? And how should one approach it?
–Roberto Simanowski
INTRO TO VISPO
READINGS
Listen to brief passages from these books
A visual poem may be defined simply as a poem composed or designed to be consciously seen. The modern visual poem is generally composed with disassembled language material. This stuff of language includes word, text, note, code, petroglyph, letter, phonic character, type, cipher, symbol, pictograph, sentence, number, hieroglyph, rhythm, iconograph, grammar, cluster, stroke, ideogram, density, pattern, diagram, logogram, accent, line, color, measure, etc. Today’s minimalist visual poet, or the post World War Two term, concrete poet, generally composes with fissioned language material to create new and free particles, and/or sonic patterns, clusters, densities, and/or textures. The visual poet composes with these freed particles and generally weds or fuses them to one or more art forms. By doing so, by crossing art form boundaries, the visual poet composes in a field of multimedia or borderblur or intermedia.
-Karl Kempton: VISUAL POETRY: A Brief History of Ancestral Roots and Modern Traditions
Reading Visual Poetry- W. Bohn
Aesthetics of Visual Poetry - Willard Bohn
Paysage- Vicente Huidobro

Vincente Huidobro - Moulin

Paysage- Vicente Huidobro
