Pedro et al:
Sorry to take so long to respond further to this matter - I've been on a
retreat (during which I took a field trip to the Sackner Archive of
Concrete and Visual Poetry in /Miami Beach) - but as to defining What
visual poetry is, that's a tough one. I tend to think of it as anything in
which there is a visual element to the work (that is, SEEING it is part of
the experience). That, however, could well include almost all poetry, so I
think it also includes a quality of the work which makes it in one way or
another totemic and/or talismanic. That is, its physical presence is part
of the thing; it's not just "abstract" like a purely linguistic artifact is.
The Sackner archive is AMAZING - there's nothing else like it anywhere.
Onword,
John
