CONCRETE
POETRY
- A 21st CENTURY ANTHOLOGY

Edited by Nancy Perloff
Published by
Reaktion Books
224 pages
16 x 24 cm
Hardcover
English
ISBN 9781789143683

Price: 158 lei

Concrete Poetry: A 21st-century Anthology is the first overview of concrete poetry in many years. Selective yet wide-ranging, this anthology re-evaluates the movement, singling out its most distinctive and influential works. Nancy Perloff, curator of an important Concrete Poetry exhibition at the Getty Research Institute, includes examples from the little-known Japanese concretists and the Wiener Gruppe – groups that, together with the Brazilian poet Augusto de Campos and the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, have engaged with the most subtle possibilities of language itself – while also incorporating key poems by Eugen Gomringer, Dieter Roth, Henri Chopin and others and including contemporary contributions by Cia Rinne and Susan Howe.

Perloff’s anthology presents individual poems, reproduced in their original languages, together with lively commentaries that explicate and contextualize the work, allowing readers to discover the intricacy of poems that some have dismissed as simple, even trivial, texts. This substantial new collection redefines what the concrete poetry movement means today.

Nancy Perloff is Curator, Modern & Contemporary Collections at the Getty Research Institute (GRI). She is the author or editor of many books including Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art (2017).