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You should know the OVUM 10 on experimental poetry
magazine published by me in Montevideo, Uruguay, towards the end of the
decade of the 60s.
Fraternally,
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Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:55
PM
Subject: Re: a new essay on Visual
Poetry, by Karl Kempton
Julian Blaine's Doc(k)s started in 1976 as well & is still
going tho
not as strong as the 80s...
On Mar 21, 2006, at 10:43 AM,
Lawrence Upton wrote:
> Ive only got as far as the intro here. He
also says
>
>> Karl Kempton published Kaldron magazine on paper
between the years
>> 1976 and
> 1990. This was the world's
first regularly published magazine that
> strove to
> include all
modes of visual poetry.
>
> Now the operative word here is
*regularly because I immediately
> think of
> Stereo Headphones
and Kroklok - and grOnk was fairly wide in its range
>
>
L
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Waber"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
To: <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
>
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 12:50 PM
> Subject: a new essay on Visual
Poetry, by Karl Kempton
>
>
>> The minimalist concrete
poetry site at:
>>
>> http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/
>>
>>
has been updated with a new essay by Karl Kempton, "VISUAL POETRY:
A
>> Brief History of Ancestral Roots and Modern
Traditions".
>>
>> From the Introduction, by Karl
Young:
>>
>> "In surfing the web today, you have probably
passed through at
>> least a
>> dozen examples of word and
image working together. Stated another
>> way,
>> you have
been observing the results of prophecies and examples from
>> the
earliest petroglyphs to the visual poets who distributed their
>>
work through the mail art network when other avenues of
publication
>> were closed to them. Given changes in communications
technology, it
>> seems unlikely that visual poets will ever again be
shoved back into
>> the position of the Haitian boat people of
American poetry. At the
>> present moment, the interaction of
graphics and text is so pervasive
>> in society that you can find it
in everything from warehouse tracking
>> systems to the most
sophisticated medical diagnostic techniques.
>> Given
>> the
now ubiquitous interrelation of word and image, it would be
>>
absurd
>> to imagine that a new generation of poets could be kept
from
>> exploring
>> this interface of media. And it would
be tragic if their predecessors
>> would continue to be excluded from
serious consideration."
>>
>> Enjoy,
>>
Dan
>>
>
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