Concrete Poetry
具体詩／コンクリート・ポエトリー / 1950s–1970s / Layout / Experimental Typography
Composes not just the meaning of words but their placement, repetition, blank space and sound as the poem itself.
Repeated words / Shapes made of letters / Large blanks / Dismantled reading order
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing historical works and their conditions · Deciding which principles survive translation to today's media
- Type
- Observe the type and composition of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one principle that steers the eye
- Material
- Verify the technique's own materials, process and support
- Caution
- Don't press text into a shape. Build a structure where meaning, sound and placement act on each other.
- Further study
- Eugen Gomringer / Dieter Roth / Augusto de Campos