Episode 39: An Exhibition of Concrete Poetry
VIDEO EPISODE: This video short exhibits classic concrete poetry, from the Calligrammes of Apollinaire, the mouse’s tail in Alice; the worldwide concrete “renaissance” of the early sixties, featuring works by Eugen Gomringer, Emmett Williams, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Mason Williams, Aram Saroyan and others, all the way to contemporary visual, animated, and kinetic concrete poetry (including haiku) by poets such as Marlene Mountain, Anita Virgil, Carlos Colon, Richard Brautigan, and much more.