MechanicalBrides - Concrete Poetry Figure-Ground


	REVIEW: FIGURE-GROUND	HYSTERIES
	Surprised that Concrete Poetry remains so obscure a subject, weary of persistently summarizing a trans-historic chaoid multiplicity with the phrase "poems made more to be seen than read", I assemble this collection of selections from the stacks of blessed interwebs ... an incomplete survey of fascinating and relevant contributions to a shared and evolving pan-linguistic modality: 'pataphysical games of ideolect exploring the repetition of simple procedures with common materials - all rules made to be broken, whence sufficiently stressed, revealing anomalous thresholds of exception and disruption. All writers interested invited to play... This plagiarist's assemblage visual history provided with no special claims to authority or completeness... a research work in perpetual progress...enjoy:	CONCRETE POETRY related Kelly Mark Justin Quinne Brian Dettmer Darren Wershler(-Henry) Tom Phillips Damian Lopes Marion Bantjes Steve McCaffery Judith Copithorne Carol Itter - Word Work - Diminishing Alphabet - Alphabet Series bill bissett Stephen Vincent Graham Gillmore Brion Gysin jwcurry on dbqp Max Middle Crg Hill - Poetry Scorecard RESOURCES ubuweb Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetics Coach House Online Editions BookThug Boekie Woekie Fantagraphics Books :Abstract Comics The Caseroom Press The Regional Assembly of Text PennSound alienated.net dbqp:visualizing poetics Digital History of Canadian Poetry London Institute of 'Pataphysics Poetry Plastique - exhibition Brazilian Visual Poetry exhibition archive Kaldron Visual Poetry Magazine online Is It A Book? bibliography ConcretePoetry index of M.P.Garofalo International Dada Library dbqp: visualizing poetics Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties OpenBookToronto reviews V.A.i.t.60's Robin Laurence: Words Become Pictures... Alphabets of Desire - Alan Moore Iliard avant-garde book history on flickr Fluxlist for inquiries, please contact: mechanicalbrides [at] bachelormachines [dot] org or refer to mechanicalbrides.org MORE BLOG LINKS CONTACT

	The following recording was molecularly reassembled from an October 21 2009 interview with Sean Cranbury for Books on the Radio:
	SOUND POETRY PennSound DadaSounds at Pennsound Audio Selections from the Sackner Archive DadaSounds at Pennsound Christian Bök and Darren Wershler-Henry - The Edge of Language - discussion on CBC radio: And Sometimes Y - July 25 2006 Christian B ö k - UbuHubbub Christian Bök readings on Ubuweb Donato Mancini reads at Testreading, Toronto, 24 August 2006 VIDEO Concrete! documentary on the Sackner Archive of Visual Poetry Christian B ö k reads at the Whitney Steve McCaffery performing Carnival bill bissett and bpNichol - Interviewed by Phillis Webb - part one - part two a.rawlings and Jonathan Wilke read for KSW Avatara - Donato Mancini documentary on second life Helvetica Manuel Delanda on codes and design RELATED TEXTS Mary Ellen Solt, Concrete Poetics: A World View; Introduction. Johanna Drucker - The Art of the Written Image selections from the manifestos of Isidore Isou, founder of Lettrism Kaldron Lettriste Pages a.rawlings reads Donato Mancini on lemonhound Brazilian Concrete Poetry exhibit review bill bissett review in bc bookworld Asger Jorn - 'Pataphysics - A Religion In The Making
	In 1966 Dick Higgins provided this highly informative mapping analytic for intermedian historians and bemused laypersons in generations to come. Note the proportion and positioning of Concrete Poetry: