Word: concretist
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...which German Concretist Gerhard Riihm retorts...
What is a would-be poet to do when he finds he has nothing to say? Fortunately for him, the 20th century has an art form for everybody. The dumbstruck poet may now make his mark as a "concretist," practicing a definition-defying new discipline derived in equal measure from pop art, typewriter doodles and the undeniable truth that a poem is, after all, just so many letters arranged on a page...
...concretist movement began simultaneously in Europe and Brazil in the early 1950s, and has now washed up in the U.S. Its antecedents go all the way back to prehistoric picture writing, with such variations along the way as the anagrams of early Christian monks, Apollinaire's Calligrammes, and the alphabet drawings of Painter Paul Klee. According to concretism's boosters, it has attracted scores of practitioners-designers, architects, mathematicians, composers, communications theorists-everybody, it would seem, but poets. The goal, explains Concretist Ronald Gross, is "poetry designed to appeal to the eye as well as to the heart...
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