ARGONAUT BOOKS

A significant, personal anthology of concrete poetry by curator Nancy Perloff. Reviews 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.Jeremy Noel-To...Read More