Women in concrete poetry, 1959-1979 / edited by Alex Balgiu & M�onica de la Torre.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Balgiu, Alexandre, editor.

Torre, Mónica de la, editor.

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Concrete poetry.

Typewriter art.

Women poets.

Women in literature.

Women artists.

Women in art.

Physical Description:

479 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Primary Information, [2020].

Summary:

This volume presents works by fifty women who may not have identified themselves as concrete poets, but whose work focused on multiplying the possibilities opened up by attending to language's materiality, and on challenging the very constructs that support the binaries divorcing a poem's physical properties from its more subjective ones. Their work may very well represent the "tension of word-things in space-time" that the Brazilian Noigandres group saw as unique to concrete poetry in 1958, but they are less concerned with using "graphic space as structural agent" than with liberating letters from words, and words from the conventions that dictate how they should function in ordinary language and in traditional literary texts. "Women in Concrete Poetry" is a kaleidoscope, traversed by many views and perspectives that defy any attempt to define concrete poetry in strict terms.

"This expansive volume is the first collection of concrete poetry by women, with artists and poets from the US, Latin America, Europe and Japan, whose work departs from more programmatic approaches to the genre. Their word-image compositions are unified by an experimental impetus and a radical questioning of the transparency of the word and its traditional arrangement on the page. Owing, perhaps, to the fact that concrete poetry's attempt to revolutionize poetry foregrounded the male-dominated channels in which it circulated, some of the women in this volume--Ilse Garnier or Giulia Niccolai, for instance--were active in the movement's epicenters, yet failed to attain a visibility or ample representation in international anthologies such as Emmett Williams's Anthology of Concrete Poetry (1967) and Mary Ellen Solt's Concrete Poetry: A World View (1968). This anthology celebrates their legacy and recontextualizes word-image compositions by other figures working independently. It gathers work by over 40 writers and artists, including Lenora de Barros (Brazil), Mirella Bentivoglio (Italy), Amanda Berenguer (Uruguay), Suzanne Bernard (France), Tomaso Binga (Italy), Blanca Calparsoro (Spain), Paula Claire (UK), Betty Danon (Turkey), Mirtha Dermisache (Argentina), Ilse Garnier (France), Anna Bella Geiger (Brazil), Bohumila Gr�ogerov�a (Czech Republic), Ana Hatherly (Portugal), Susan Howe (USA), Tamara Jankovic (Serbia), Annalies Klophaus (Germany), Barbara Kozlowska (Poland), Liliana Landi (Italy), Liliane Lijn (USA), Fran�coise Mairey (France), Giulia Niccolai (Italy), Jennifer Pike (UK), Giovanna Sandri (Italy), Mira Schendel (Brazil), Chima Sunada (Japan), Mary Ellen Solt (USA), Salette Tavares (Portugal), Colleen Thibaudeau (Canada), Rosmarie Waldrop (USA) and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (Germany)."--Amazon website (viewed on October 22, 2020)

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Introduction

II. Works

Neeijj (1966) / Sonja Akesson

Monumento (1968) / Mirella Bentivoglio

Ri-chora (1976) / Lenora de Barros

Ruindooruido (1978)

Ciclo (1974) / Mirella Bentivoglio

E=Congiunzione (1973)

Gabbia (Ho) (1966)

L'assente (1971)

Numero e parola, non corrispondenza (1971)

Vttoto al centro (1966)

Selections from Composition de lugar (1976) / Amanda Berenguer

Selections from Poemes (1959) / Suzanne Bernard

Selections from the Guide to Modern English Series (1972) / Gay Beste

Haiku (1972) / Alison Bielski

Lupine, snowdrop, water lily, violet (1975)

Selections from Alfabetiere murale (1976) and Dattilocodice (1978) / Tomaso Binga

Selections from () (1975) / Irma Blank

Droga do Raju, droga do Nieba, droga do Ziemi, droga do Rozumu (1970) / Marianna Bocian

Poczqtek i Koniec (1974)

Selections from Collages (1969) / Blanca Calparsoro

Epithalamion (1971) / Paula Claire

Weld (1971)

Sea Shanty (1971)

Seveso (1977)

Jetakeoff (1970)

Selections from Punto Linea (1976) / Betty Danon

Hamlet Fragmented (1971) / Agnes Denes

Diario No. 1 Ano 1 (1972) / Mirtha Dermisache

Untitled (1971) / Amelia Etlinger

Untitled (1971)

Selections from Blason du corps feminin (1979) / Ilse Gamier

O novo atlas (1977) / Anna Bella Geiger

Selections from Word Rain (1969) / Madeline Gins

Selections from job boj (1966) / Bohumila Grogerova

Selections from Leonorana (1965-70) / Ana Hatherly

Selections from Hinge Picture (1974) / Susan Howe

Alone (1970s) / Ruth Jacoby

Eat (1970s)

Love (1970s)

Rondelet (1970s)

Slow Progress (1970s)

Sesta dimenzija 16 (1970) / Tamara Jankovic

Sesta dimenzija 17 (1970)

Selections from Mot-Couleur-Roman (1970) / Annalies Klophaus

Od-do, zegar-obiekt (1978) / Marzenna Kosinska

Perpetum mobile (1979)

Kwadrat (1975) / Barbara Kozlowska

Linia (1977)

Okno (1971)

Stadokadopokad (1979)

Stadotad (1977)

XXVIII (1976)

Jugoslawisches Tastatur Lied (1969) / Katalin Ladik

Wildflowers (1978)

Traces of Green Palm of Hand Upholstery (1972)

R.O.M.E.T. score (1972)

Spring Buzz (1977)

Selections from In rapporto a (1976) / Liliana Landi

Mind Home (Neurographs) (1971) / Liliane Lijn

Easy Does It (Neurographs) (1971)

Tension (Neurographs) (1971)

Electronic Goddess (Neurographs) (1971)

Poem Machines (1962

68)

Selections from Substitution (1977) / Franchise Mairey

Selections from Humpty Dumpty (1967) / Giulia Niccolai

"O dekorativnyx knigax v inter'iore" (1979) / Ry Nikonova

"Novaya forma knigi (Prodolzhenie stat'i `O dekorativnyx knigax')" (1979)

"Variant zhumal'noy skul'ptury" (1979)

"Manifesto della Nuova Scrittura al femminile" (1975) / Anna Oberto

"Manifesto femminista anaculturale" (1971)

Wump Ertater, A Number Progression (1970) / Jennifer Pike

Documentation of Kocke-reke (1971) / Bogdanka Poznanovic

Documentation of Reke (1972)

Documentation of Signalne Vatre (1974)

Selections from Me in Time (1975) / Betty Radin

Selections from Capitolo Zero (1969) / Giovanna Sandri

Selections from Datiloscritos (1970s) / Mira Schendel

Marriage Poem (1976) / Mary Ellen Solt

Living and Death (1970) / Chima Sunada

Loneliness Doesn't Betray (1970)

Signs "start," sign "out" (1965)

Brin cadeiras (1964) / Salette Tavares

Brin cadeiras (birras) (1966)

Selections from Lozenges, Poems in the Shapes of Things (1965) / Colleen Thibaudeau

Typoezija (1970) / Biljana Tomic

Segmenti alfabetici (1972) / Silvia Trevale

a, a. A, (1967) / Patrizia Vicinelli

Selections from Camp Printing (1970) / Rosmarie Waldrop

Selections from Signal Flag Poems (1968) / Hannah Weiner

Post Office Letter (mid-1970s) / Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt

Letter for You (1974)

To/From (197A)

Zementmixer (mid-1970s)

III. Translations.

Notes:

Includes biographies of the artists, pages 464-479.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

1734489723

9781734489729

OCLC:

1159484701

Publisher Number:

99986102159