A Guide for Reading Concrete Poetry

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.)

(Based on Edmund Feldman’s Critical Performance)

Concrete poetry is poetry in which the text itself forms a picture on the page.

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Preserving History: ASCII Ribbon Campaign Homepage

THE SEMI-OFFICIAL, SEMI-SERIOUS
ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN
AGAINST GRATUITOUS GRAPHICS ON THE WEB!
I have noticed a disturbing trend in software of late, a trend exemplified in the Web. This is the tendency to decide that if you have enough cool looking graphics, you don’t have to have any real content. This trend, on the web at least, has resulted a glut of graphics heavy, worthless pages, that take a million years to download and once you have them, you wish you hadn’t wasted the time, and don’t even get me started on PC games!

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