Concrete Poetry
Poems shaped like their subject — the words arranged as picture, pattern, and score.
Specifications & Metrics
- origin
- Ancient pattern poems; named 1950s Brazil
- originator
- Noigandres group (Brazil); Apollinaire's calligrammes
- meter
- Spatial composition
- lines count
- 0
Core Principles & Analysis
- The Brazilian Noigandres poets named and theorized it in the 1950s.
- Apollinaire's calligrammes set the modern precedent in 1918.
- Its lineage runs from Greek pattern poems to digital and sound work.
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