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AVANT GARDE CRITICAL STUDIES 10 Comite de redactionlEditorial Board: Directeur: Femand Drijkoningen Secretaire: Klaus Beekman Membres: Henri Behar, Peter BUrger, Leigh Landy, Ben Rebel et Willem Weststeijn EXPERIMENTAL - VISUAL - CONCRETE AVANT-GARDE POETRY SINCE THE 1960s Edited by K. David J ackson, Eric Vos & J ohanna Drucker AMSTERDAM - ATLANTA, GA 1996 Cover art: lohanna Drucker @ The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of "ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents - Requirements for permanence". @ Le papier sur lequelle present ouvrage est imprime remplit les prescrip tions de "ISO 9706:1994, Information et documentation - Papier pour documents - Prescriptions pour la permanence". CIP-GEGEVENS KONINKLIJKE BIBLIOTHEEK, DEN HAAG Experimental Experimental- Visual - Concrete: avant-garde poetry since the 1960s / K. David Jackson, Eric Vos, lohanna Drucker, eds. - Amsterdam - Atlanta, GA 1996 : Rodopi. - Ill. (A vant garde critical studies; 10) Met index, lit. opg. ISBN: 90-5183-959-6 (bound) ISBN: 90-5183-941-3 (paper) NUGI 9511911 Trefw.: avant-garde; poezie ; geschiedenis; 1960-1995. ©Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - Atlanta, GA 1996 Printed in the Netherlands CONTENTS Preface Experimental- Visual- Concrete Poetry and The Yale Symphosophia 9 Charles Bernstein Erosion Control Area 2 (Poem) 17 A. INTRODUCTION Eric Vos Critical Perspectives on Experimental, Visual, and Concrete Poetry: An Introduction to this Volume (with an Appendix on Carlfriedrich CIa us) 23 Johanna Drucker Experimental, Visual, and Concrete Poetry: A Note on Historical Context and Basic Concepts 39 B. EXPERIMENTATION IN ITS HISTORICAL MOMENT Ana Hatherly Voices of Reading 65 Jorge Schwartz The Moremarrow Trajectory of Oliverio Girondo 73 Roberto Gonzalez Ecchevarrfa Sarduy and the Visual Text 91 John Picchione Poetry in Revolt: Italian Avant-Garde Movements in the Sixties 101 William Anselmi When the Avant-Garde reaches its Mass: The Novissimi and the Political Situation in Italy: 1977 109 Lello Voce A vant-Garde and Tradition: A Critique 117 C. EXPERIMENTATION IN THE LANGUAGE ARTS Wladimir Krysinski The Endless Ends of Languages of Poetry. Between Experiments and Cognitive Quests 123 WaIter Moser Haroldo de Campos' Literary Experimentation of the Second Kind 139 Haroldo de Campos Galdxias [exerpts] 155 K. Alfons Knauth Palabras: The Haroldic Emblem 157 Willard Bohn From Hieroglyphics to Hypergraphics 173 Owen F. Smith Fluxus, Experimentalism, and the End of Language 187 Jackson Mac Low Nonintentional Poetry 203 Harry Polkinhorn (comp.) A Mini-Anthology on the State of Contemporary Poetry (With Special Reference to the USA) 1) Harry Polkinhorn: "Hyperotics: Towards a Theory of Experimental Poetry" 211 2) Michael Basinski: "On Experimental Poetry" 215 3) Jake Berry: "Articulating Freedom: Three Brief Notes Regarding the Contemporary UndergroundlOtherstream" 216 4) Fabio Doctorovich: "The Postypographic Era" 217 5) Jack Foley: "The Question of the Experimental" 219 6) Karl Young: "The Tools of Writing / The Ends of Literature" 220 Enzo Minarelli Polipoesia 225 Lambert Pignotti Visual Poetry, Verbo-Visual Writing 233 E.M. de Melo e Castro The Cryptic Eye 239 Eduardo Kac Key Concepts of Holopoetry 247 Philadelpho Menezes lntersign Poetry: Visual and Sound Poetics in the Technologizing ~~~~ lli D. CONCRETE AND NEO-CONCRETE POETRY Claus Cliiver Concrete Poetry: Critical Perspectives from the 90s 265 Pedro Reis Concrete Poetry: A Generic Perspective 287 Pierre Garnier Constructivist Poems 303 Craig Saper Under Cancellation: The Future +twte of Visual Poetry 309 Amelie Bjorck Swedish Concrete Poetry in Focus 317 Marjorie Perloff Afterimages: Revolution of the (Visible) Word 335 MEMOIRS OF CONCRETE Mary ElIen Solt Concrete Steps to an Anthology 347 Elisabeth Walther-Bense The Relations of Haroldo de Campos to German Concretist Poets, in Particular to Max Bense 353 E. THE YALE SYMPHOSYMPOSIUM ON CONTEMPORARY POETICS AND CONCRETISM: A WORLD VIEW FROM THE 1990s Contemporary Poetics and Concretism 369 Historical Precedents of Concrete Texts 375 Theoretical Underpinnings of Experimental Poetry 381 Concrete Poets of the 1950s11960s and Poetics Today 388 Concretism: A Poetics or Formal Device? 394 Avant-Garde Trends: Is Concretism a New Reading of Tradition? 404 Index of Names 419 Abstracts 431 Correspondence addresses 441 PLATES Severo Sarduy Homage to Li Po 10 Severo Sarduy Self-Portrait 11 Augusto de Campos terremoto 14 Augusto de Campos Zygia fingers 15 Anne Tardos & lackson Mac Low I st Four-Language Word Event In Memoriam John Cage 206 Anne Tardos from "Amy Minden" 368 Eugen Gomringer silencio 402 EXPERIMENTAL - VISUAL - CONCRETE POETRY AND THE YALE SYMPHOSOPHIA Preface The Yale Symphosophia brought together over forty poets and performers on April 5-7, 1995 for a symposium on Experimental, Visual, and· Concrete poetry aimed to produce a retrospective review and critical appraisal in inter national perspective of almost half a century of poetic production. The Brazilian poet Haroldo de Campos had been a visiting professor at Yale on more than one occasion, and plans for the Yale Symphosophia as a way of celebrating Haroldo de Campos's long association with Yale were initiated by K. David Jackson, professor of Portuguese, in view of his interest in contem porary poetics and contact with the Brazilian Concretists over three decades. The original idea was expanded as an homage to the poets in Portuguese language who had played a significant role as innovators in the experimental poetics of the 1950s and 60s, with Ana Hatherly and E. M. de Melo e Castro representing continental Portuguese literature. The presence of Johanna Drucker at Yale, in the Department of History of Art, made possible a collabo ration that greatly enlarged the scope of the symposium, with the addition of American and Canadian poets, printers, performers, graphic artists, and critics. Once announced, the Symphosophia soon became a magnet for the theme of contemporary experimentation in language arts. The scope of the event expanded into a comprehensive critical analysis of the history and theory of experimental poetics from mid-century to the present, with the presence of numerous major figures in the field, from Marjorie Perloff representing criticism to Jackson Mac Low and Anne Tardos performing aleatory texts. The active participation of Eric Vos, from Amsterdam, signaled a European scholarly dimension. Reflecting Haroldo de Campos's international presence as a poet, the Symphosophia featured segments on Portuguese, Spanish Ame rican, and Italian poetics. The global connections of Concrete poetry attracted John Solt and the Japanese troupe from Amherst College, the Danish poet Susanne Jorn, as well as Canadian, Scottish, Argentine, Cuban, Swedish, French, and German authors and topics. The Symposophia benefited from the perspectives of Ruth and Marvin Sackner, professional collectors representing the most extensive and complete archive of Concrete poetry in existence. The historical dimension was equally well represented: Mary Ellen Solt, organizer 10 COLOR PLATE 1 Severo Sarduy, "Homage to Li Po"
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