Concrete Poetry

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Published: 1967-07-01

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Mike Weaver

Abstract

The origins of the Concrete movement in poetry are briefly traced, with early manifestoes included as appendices. Three perceptual approaches, classified as optic, kinetic, and phonetic, are distinguished by means of twenty·one illustrations. The emphasis falls on the development of a new fixed form consonant with our age.

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Vol. 1 No. 3 (1967): Volume 1.3

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Research Article

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Mike Weaver

Mike Weaver organized the first international exhibition of Concrete poetry in Britain, held in Cambridge in the fall of 1964, and is an editor of Form (Cambridge, England). At present he is engaged on a study of William Carlos Williams and a book of documents on Black Mountain College, North Carolina. He is lecturer in American literature at the University of Exeter in England, where he may be reached care of the English Department.

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