Julian Blaine's Doc(k)s started in 1976 as well & is still going tho
not as strong as the 80s...
On Mar 21, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
Ive only got as far as the intro here. He also says
Karl Kempton published Kaldron magazine on paper between the years
1976 and
1990. This was the world's first regularly published magazine that
strove to
include all modes of visual poetry.
Now the operative word here is *regularly because I immediately
think of
Stereo Headphones and Kroklok - and grOnk was fairly wide in its range
L
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Waber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 12:50 PM
Subject: a new essay on Visual Poetry, by Karl Kempton
The minimalist concrete poetry site at:
http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/
has been updated with a new essay by Karl Kempton, "VISUAL POETRY: A
Brief History of Ancestral Roots and Modern Traditions".
From the Introduction, by Karl Young:
"In surfing the web today, you have probably passed through at
least a
dozen examples of word and image working together. Stated another
way,
you have been observing the results of prophecies and examples from
the earliest petroglyphs to the visual poets who distributed their
work through the mail art network when other avenues of publication
were closed to them. Given changes in communications technology, it
seems unlikely that visual poets will ever again be shoved back into
the position of the Haitian boat people of American poetry. At the
present moment, the interaction of graphics and text is so pervasive
in society that you can find it in everything from warehouse tracking
systems to the most sophisticated medical diagnostic techniques.
Given
the now ubiquitous interrelation of word and image, it would be
absurd
to imagine that a new generation of poets could be kept from
exploring
this interface of media. And it would be tragic if their predecessors
would continue to be excluded from serious consideration."
Enjoy,
Dan
