A Guide for Reading Concrete Poetry
(Link via the Internet Archives, the original site is now something else. I wanted to save the post so I have made my own archive of the contents here.)
… Read the rest(Based on Edmund Feldman’s Critical Performance)
Concrete poetry is poetry in which the text itself forms a picture on the page.
Source: ECKOVISION See the site for many more concrete/ visual poetry art (no updates since 2015) from Scott Scherr.
Source: ASCII Art (Thanks to the Wayback Machine).
Concrete poetry is a form of text art, like ASCII art and typewriter art. It’s also poetry, the genre known as visual poetry. Concrete poetry uses words and drawings to illustrate a poem. The words are in the image. The text itself forms a visible picture on the page, like a silhouette.
Calligram seems to be another word for concrete poetry.… Read the rest
Found on Plenty of Colour (now gone).
Originally created by Blake Walmsley.
… Read the restStandard red-cloth Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1865 (1876 reprint shown here) (interior page). This is the mouse’s tale/tail, an early example of concrete poetry. Its typography echoes that of the hand-drawn tail that Carroll included in his gift manuscript to Alice Liddell. The editorial content and typography of the tale evolved over the course of the Carroll-directed Victorian editions (and posthumous editions) of Wonderland.