Yes, indeed. I should have thought of that. There is also the eclectic Ou I am now in the article itself and am puzzling over:
"I should point out that after the 1970's Cobbing moved out of Concrete Poetry into visual poetry and beyond to wordless compositions." I have no idea what is meant and no helpful definition of _concrete_ and _visual_ to the explain the distinction being made has been offered This proposed trajectory [from words] into wordlessness was proposed by Bury Art Gallery last year and there is no evidence for it... Not that any is offered, just the assertion, as with B A G. I'll just point out that Cobbing continued using letters / words up to the last and that his earliest - as far as I know - surviving work dates from 1942 and it is wordless ----- Original Message ----- From: "mIEKAL aND" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 4:55 PM Subject: Re: a new essay on Visual Poetry, by Karl Kempton > 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 > >> > > >
