Christian Bök: Crystallography (1994/2003)
Filed under poetry | Tags: · concrete poetry, language, pataphysics, poetry, science, visual poetry
“Crystallography’ means the study of crystals, but also, taken literally, ‘lucid writing.’ The book exists in the intersection of poetry and science, exploring the relationship between language and crystals – looking at language as a crystal, a space in which the chaos of individual parts align to expose a perfect formation of structure. As Bök himself says, ‘a word is a bit of crystal in formation,’ suggesting there is a space in which words, like crystals, can resonate pure form.”
First edition published 1994
Second edition, revised
Publisher Coach House Books, Toronto, 2003
ISBN 1552451194
157 pages
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Reviews: Darren Wershler-Henry (2001), Adam Golaski (Open Letters Monthly 2007), Ian Rae (Canadian Literature 2011).
Commentary: Nathan Brown (2004), James Elkins (2014).
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Comment (0)Wlademir Dias-Pino: Escritas arcaicas (1991)
Filed under artist publishing | Tags: · concrete poetry
An artist’s book composed of colour plates first created in the early 1970s by the Brazilian poet and graphic artist Wlademir Dias-Pino. Published as one of the 1,001 volumes of Enciclopédia Visual [Visual Encyclopedia] series.
Publisher Europa, Rio de Janeiro, 1991
Enciclopédia Visual series, 447
36 plates, 21,5 x 21,5 cm
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Edgard Braga: Tatuagens. Poemas (1976) [BR-PT]
Filed under book | Tags: · concrete poetry, poetry, visual poetry
A collection of 16 works by the Brazilian concrete poet from 1964-71, published in the series edited by Augusto de Campos, Julio Plaza, and Régis Bonvicino.
Publisher Edições Invenção, São Paulo, 1976
16 pages
via Amir Brito
Commentary: Silvio Ferraz (2007, BR-PT), Beatriz Helena Ramos Amaral (2013, BR-PT).
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