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Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology de Nancy Perloff

Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology

Editat de Nancy Perloff
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 ian 2022

Aplicabilitatea practică a acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea sa de a transforma lectura dintr-un proces liniar într-o experiență vizuală și spațială multisenzorială. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Nancy Perloff reușește să legitimeze poezia concretă nu doar ca experiment estetic, ci ca o componentă esențială a limbajului vizual contemporan. Structura antologiei este riguros construită: după o introducere teoretică consistentă, materialul progresează de la studii de caz asupra unor figuri centrale precum Augusto de Campos sau Ian Hamilton Finlay, către secțiuni dedicate unor centre geografice de inovație — de la Japonia la Austria și Regatul Unit.

Merită menționat că textele sunt prezentate în limbile lor originale, fiind însoțite de comentarii care decodifică structurile lingvistice complexe, demontând prejudecata că poezia concretă ar fi un gen simplist. Cititorii familiarizați cu The New Concrete de Victoria Bean vor aprecia modul în care volumul de față aduce o perspectivă istorică mai profundă și o rigoare academică sporită, ancorând formele digitale actuale în tradiția avangardei postbelice. Dacă The New Concrete se concentrează pe explozia creativității digitale, antologia lui Perloff oferă contextul critic necesar pentru a înțelege evoluția acestor forme.

În contextul operei sale, Nancy Perloff continuă explorarea avangardei începută în The Scores Project și Sensing the Future. Dacă lucrările anterioare examinau intersecția dintre muzică, inginerie și performance, Concrete Poetry se concentrează pe „obiectualitatea” cuvântului. Volumul funcționează ca o punte între istoria artei și filologie, oferind instrumente de analiză pentru poezia care refuză să fie doar citită, cerând să fie privită.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781789143683
ISBN-10: 1789143683
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 119 color plates, 28 halftones
Dimensiuni: 159 x 235 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books

De ce să citești această carte

Această antologie este esențială pentru studenții de la Litere și Arte Plastice, oferind o resursă vizuală bogată (152 de ilustrații) și o analiză critică de neegalat. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere clară a modului în care designul grafic și literatura fuzionează. Este un ghid indispensabil pentru oricine dorește să exploreze limitele limbajului și să înțeleagă rădăcinile culturii vizuale digitale moderne.

Despre autor

Nancy Perloff este cercetător principal (Edward A. Dickson Fellow) în Istoria Artei la University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Expertiza sa se concentrează pe avangarda europeană și americană, fiind curatorul unei expoziții de referință despre poezia concretă la Getty Research Institute. Activitatea sa academică este marcată de un interes profund pentru relația dintre mediile artistice, explorând modul în care muzica, artele vizuale și poezia interacționează în spațiul performativ și expozițional, teme recurente în întreaga sa carieră de editor și istoric de artă.

Descriere scurtă

Now in paperback, a significant new collection of concrete poetry that redefines what this unique literary movement means today.
 
Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology is the first overview of concrete poetry in many years. Selective yet wide-ranging, this anthology re-evaluates the movement, singling out its most distinctive and influential works. Nancy Perloff, the curator of an important Concrete Poetry exhibition at the Getty Research Institute, includes examples from the little-known Japanese concretists and the Wiener Gruppe—groups that, together with the Brazilian poet Augusto de Campos and the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, have engaged with the most subtle possibilities of language itself—while also incorporating key poems by Eugen Gomringer, Dieter Roth, Henri Chopin, and others and including contemporary contributions by Cia Rinne and Susan Howe.
 
Perloff’s anthology presents individual poems, reproduced in their original languages, together with lively commentaries that explicate and contextualize the work, allowing readers to discover the intricacy of poems that some have dismissed as simple, even trivial, texts. This substantial new collection redefines what the concrete poetry movement means today.

Notă biografică

Nancy Perloff is the curator of modern & contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. She is the author or editor of many books, including Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art.

Extras

The term ‘concrete poetry’ refers both to a poetic genre and to the international movement that first emerged in Brazil and Austria in the early 1950s. Concrete poetry must be distinguished from visual poetry, a more general term for poems that focus primarily on the visual arrangement of language. Unlike concrete poetry, visual poetry can refer to a history as old as writing itself. In Johanna Drucker’s words, ‘Certainly the scribes who incised Egyptian hieroglyphics into the material substrate of walls and sarcophagi from about 2700 bc onward were sensitive to the visual arrangement of their signs.’
 
But today we understand visual poetry as a larger category that subsumes concretism. Indeed, some critics make the historical argument that the concrete poetry movement, so important in Europe, the United Kingdom and Asia from the 1950s until the 1970s, charted the territory for the visual poetry that followed it, even as concrete poetry itself fell away. An essential principle of concretism – ‘that language has a visual dimension and that the actual “look” of a poem on the page determines, at least in part, its meaning’ – became central to visual poetics as practiced in the late twentieth century and today. Typewriter art, a subset of visual poetry, creates images composed of brackets, dashes, slashes and asterisks, as well as other forms of graphic art, all by manipulating the keyboard and the typewriter roller.
 
At the opposite end of the spectrum from visual poetry lies the genre of sound poetry, which alters the characteristic relationship between sound and sense by ‘multiplying, reducing, or denying semantic reference, while expanding the phonetic and aural properties of language’. Although sound poetry has been present throughout the history of Western literature and has origins in the vast array of poetry, chant structures and syllabic mouthings still alive among many North American, African, Asian and Oceanic peoples, its immediate origins can be traced to the international network of the European avant-gardes.
 
Like concrete poetry, sound poetry is a hybrid form working across media. Yet an effective analysis of a sound poem’s text, as opposed to that of a concrete poem, must consider its realization in live performance and hence the very nature of its sounds – their intelligibility, their relation to other sounds in the poem, their use of the pronunciation of a particular spoken language, their role in articulating structure. Sound poetry does not privilege meaning, and in performance we hear its probing of the limits of referentiality.
 
All the poets in this anthology would no doubt agree with Rosmarie Waldrop’s basic definition, ‘Concrete poetry is a revolt against the transparency of the word.’ And it ‘is a poetry that makes the sound and shape of words its explicit field of investigation’. But, beyond such basics, what have been the defining features of concrete as put forth by the poets themselves?
 

Recenzii

"What is undoubtedly valuable about the book is the way that it carefully arranges, in a beautifully printed hardback, a selection of concrete poetry’s keystones. The first half of Perloff’s selection triangulates Brazil, Austria and Scotland through the work of three key figures: Augusto de Campos, Gerhard Rühm, and Ian Hamilton Finlay. For the anglophone reader, she glosses the foreign words involved, prising apart the heavy punning that sparked the concrete imagination."

"Readers are treated to nearly two hundred color and black-and-white illustrations of poems, reproduced in their original languages, together with commentary on each offering context and recognition to this influential postmodernist poetic genre."

"Instead of simply reprising ‘Concrete Poetry’s Greatest Hits,’ Perloff’s anthology covers a wide range of formal approaches and aesthetics, and we are introduced to work from throughout Europe and North America, as well as important poetry from Japan, and especially, Brazil, where the poets associated the Noigandres group, among other innovations, made poetry by ‘pursuing an analogy between musical instruments and components of language.’"

"This is an exciting and engaging summary of an important and still misunderstood field, the value of which lies in the intelligence and sensitivity of Perloff’s close readings."

“An eclectic, global anthology of concrete poetry selected and annotated by Perloff, curator of modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute.” 

"Most of the poems in Concrete Poetry fill a full page (and sometimes two). Under each is Perloff’s critical gloss, never more than a few sentences long, and often brilliant . . . These glosses by Perloff set a new higher standard for the critical reading of avant-garde poetry, whether concrete or visual. The two pioneering critics of avant-garde poetry, Dick Higgins and Bob Grumman, would have loved them, as do I."

"Perloff’s new anthology presents a wide sampling of what is known as concrete poetry. Through the book's rich introduction to the nearly 200 color and black-and-white illustrations and the commentary below each, readers learn much about this postmodernist poetic genre. . . . Recommended."

"Perloff’s Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology offers a present-day perspective on the concrete poetry movement of the 1950s through to the 1970s. The curator takes us back to that defining period, which most scholars identify as the heyday of concretism, with the aim of establishing a sort of 'canon' of the most interesting and enduring contributors to the movement. Here is a body of work . . . which deserves a wider audience and greater critical attention."

"Beautifully produced. . . . Whether you leap in and buy it or consult a library copy I think it's well worth your time. A book for poets, readers, and art lovers. Your own formally composed verses, on the still white page, ought to be ruffled, alarmed, and if not fully converted, at least have the 'look' of them excitingly challenged."

“Perloff's lively style and tone in this book help to give new life to old forms, conveying something of the sense of adventure felt among those of us still young enough to remember being part of this postwar cultural movement. Written in a highly accessible way, with a fine choice of accompanying poems, it's a book to generate new interest as well as to inform existing initiates.”

"This new anthology is to be welcomed. It features a wide range of international poets who contributed to the movement, and displays prime examples of their poetic output in its original setting. Perloff offers personal commentaries on the individual poems, and provides a historical introduction which also conveys her belief in the enduring legacy of the movement."

"This wonderfully rich anthology reveals the experimentation and internationalism of concrete poetry and its continuing significance. Perloff’s fresh selection, including the work of poets from Austria and Japan, offers scholarly insight alongside helpful notes to each poem."

"This groundbreaking book finally legitimizes one of the most important—yet most neglected—strains of contemporary poetic practice. By rigorously framing concrete poetry within a critical discourse, Perloff forcefully positions concrete poetry as essential to understanding our digital world. More than a mere history or a survey, Concrete Poetry’s landmark achievement signifies an essential reshuffling of the historical deck."

Cuprins

AUTHOR’S NOTE
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
AUGUSTO DE CAMPOS
GERHARD RÜHM
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY
BRAZIL
AUSTRIA
JAPAN
UNITED KINGDOM
SWITZERLAND
GERMANY AND FRANCE
UNITED STATES AND CANADA
POSTLUDE
BIOGRAPHIES
REFERENCES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS