Concrete Poetry
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The turning of a page is an aesthetic event; or at any rate it should be. Anyone who writes will know how oddly crucial it can be that a certain page end with a certain word, that the next one begin with a certain other. If we turn the page, space will become time. Now there is magic, the magic of technology. There is the key to the new poetry. Now you know how to read "etwas" or "LIFE." Science may be magical, but art is always logical. Imagine the "etwas" poem on a single page, as it was in the original. Extend the white space; transfer the black rectangle to the following page. What has happened is that we have developed a plot. We have added suspense— that is, time. Play with the space in "LIFE." Midway through the word, change the side of the page the letters appear on. You have altered the periodicity of the poem; you have changed the velocity, the rhythm, in which the poem must be grasped as expressing time. What the reader does is enter the time of the book.
- Eugene Wildman (American editor and writer), Anthology of Concretism
See Also
- Metaphors of Space
- Bolter
- Davies
- Concrete Poetry
- Memory and Space
- Cyberpunk
- Romantic Time
- Canning
- Minsky
