Vasily Kamensky: Tango With Cows: Ferro-Concrete Poems (1914) [Russian]
Filed under artist publishing | Tags: · concrete poetry, cubo-futurism, futurism, poetry, typography, visual poetry
Tango With Cows is an artists’ book by the Russian futurist poet Vasily Kamensky, with three drawings by the brothers David and Vladimir Burliuk. Printed in an edition of 300, the work has become famous primarily for being made entirely of commercially produced wallpaper, with a series of concrete poems – visual poems that employ unusual typographic layouts for expressive effect – printed onto the recto of each page.
Beginning with a drawing by Vladimir Burliuk of a woman, the poems are split into two sections; the first contains 8 concrete poems that use multiple fonts and unusual spacings to express sounds and textures. Telephone, for instance, starts with ‘Telephone No. 2B_128 / rgrgrrrrrr______rrg’. The second group of 6 are arranged within diagonal grids, that evoke both the cubist paintings of Picasso and Braque, and the moulds that are used to make reinforced concrete. These poems refer directly to aerial views, maps and floor-plans. (from Wikipedia)
Tango s korovami: zhelezobetonnye poemy [Танго С Коровами: Железобетонныя Поэмы]
Published in Moscow, 1914
36 pages
via Archive.org
PDF
PDF (single-page PDF of a volume bound in a slightly different order)
Eduardo Kac’s translation of the poem “Telephone”
TangoWithCows.com, a project to translate the book into English (forthcoming mid-2014)
Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari, Haroldo de Campos: Teoria da Poesia Concreta – Textos Críticos e Manifestos 1950-1960, 2a ed. (1965/1975) [Portuguese]
Filed under book | Tags: · concrete poetry, literary theory, literature, poetry, visual poetry
O concretismo alterou profundamente a realidade da poesia brasileira. Revisou o passado literário do país e retomou o diálogo com o modernismo de 1922; pôs ideias em circulação e colocou à arte novos desafios. Hoje, está presente também na linguagem da propaganda, nos slogans da televisão, na diagramação de livros, nas letras de bossa nova. Este volume reúne os textos inaugurais do movimento concreto e recupera uma história que andava obscurecida pelos preconceitos de seus opositores.
First published in 1965
Publisher Livraria Duas Cidades, São Paulo, 1975
207 pages
via Horacio Gutiérrez
Pignatari’s bibliography at Monoskop wiki
Comment (0)Poems for a Thaler, No. 0–4 (1964–65) [Danish]
Filed under magazine, poetry | Tags: · concrete poetry, literature, poetry, visual poetry
The magazine Digte for en daler [Poems for a Thaler] introduced concrete poetry into Denmark. It was published in four issues, of which Issue 0 and Issue 2 can be read from both ends. Issue 2 includes Bjarne Sandstrøm’s poem “Ode til Claude Shannon” [Ode to Claude Shannon].
Edited by Vagn Steen and Hans-Jørgen Nielsen
via NUBUweb
More about the journal and each issue
Commentary (Tania Ørum, in Danish)
Issue 0 (Version 1)
Issue 0 (Version 2)
Issue 1
Issue 2 (Version 1)
Issue 2 (Version 2)
Issue 3 was not published
Issue 4