Dreaming Up

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Author: Christy Hale

Publisher: Lee & Low Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781600606519

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A collection of illustrations, concrete poetry, and photographs that shows how young children's constructions, created as they play, are reflected in notable works of architecture from around the world.

Concrete Poetry

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Author: Simon Phipps

Publisher: September Publishing

Published: 2018-11-06

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1910463140

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A visual journey through the public sculpture, art and architecture of Modernist Britain f rom Simon Phipps, author of Brutal North and Brutal London At the end of the Second World War, Britain's cities and communities desperately needed rebuilding. As new houses and public spaces were planned, communal engagement was considered to be vital to social recovery. Public art was thought to provide the means to create this engagement. This era of post-war progressive civic planning gave rise to some of the UK's most important pieces of public art. From Richard Serra's Fulcrum in London's Broadgate to Barbara Hepworth's works across the country, to the less well-known Cumisky mural in Skelmersdale and the vivid Schottlander shapes in Warwick, these works of art have become familiar companions; backdrops to British lives. There is an urgency to catalogue these works as much of Britain's Modernist public art is at risk - not to mention that which has already been removed, vandalised or left to crumble. In Concrete Poetry, Simon Phipps photographs, explores and celebrates Britain's post-war public art, placing it in context and considering its future. Complete with incredible photography, an introduction by Phipps, an essay by Darren Umney and detailed captions, Concrete Poetry honours not only of the artworks themselves, but also the community spirit of the age from which they came. Designed by creative agency Studio Small, Concrete Poetry is a uniquely beautiful book that is as inventive as its subject matter. Please note this is a fixed-format ebook with colour images and may not be well-suited for older e-readers.

Meow Ruff

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Author: Joyce Sidman

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780618448944

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A collection of concrete poetry where an animal is built out of words on paper.

A Poke in the I

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Author: Paul B. Janeczko

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780763606619

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Offers a collection of poetry for young readers from numerous visual poets, including Maureen W. Armour and John Hollander.

Wet Cement

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Author: Bob Raczka

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press

Published: 2016-03-08

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1626727163

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Who says words need to be concrete? This collection shapes poems in surprising and delightful ways. Concrete poetry is a perennially popular poetic form because they are fun to look at. But by using the arrangement of the words on the page to convey the meaning of the poem, concrete or shape poems are also easy to write! From the author of the incredibly inventive Lemonade: And Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word comes another clever collection that shows kids how to look at words and poetry in a whole new way.

Ode to a Commode

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Author: Brian P. Cleary

Publisher: Millbrook Press

Published: 2014-10-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 146774767X

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Is that a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a poem! Concrete poems are shaped like their subjects. They can look like objects, animals, or even people. You won't find many straight lines here! Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how concrete poems work—and uses them to create all sorts of wild wordplay. Ode to a Commode is packed with mind-bending poems to make you puzzle and ponder. And when you've finished reading, you can try your hand at writing your own concrete poems!

Women in Concrete Poetry 1959-1979

Women in Concrete Poetry 1959-1979 PDF

Author: Alex Balgiu

Publisher: Primary Information

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781734489729

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A massive, groundbreaking, international anthology of concrete poetry by women, from Mira Schendel to Susan Howe This expansive volume is the first collection of concrete poetry by women, with artists and poets from the US, Latin America, Europe and Japan, whose work departs from more programmatic approaches to the genre. Their word-image compositions are unified by an experimental impetus and a radical questioning of the transparency of the word and its traditional arrangement on the page. Owing, perhaps, to the fact that concrete poetry's attempt to revolutionize poetry foregrounded the male-dominated channels in which it circulated, some of the women in this volume--Ilse Garnier or Giulia Niccolai, for instance--were active in the movement's epicenters, yet failed to attain a visibility or ample representation in international anthologies such as Emmett Williams's Anthology of Concrete Poetry(1967) and Mary Ellen Solt's Concrete Poetry: A World View(1968). This anthology celebrates their legacy and recontextualizes word-image compositions by other figures working independently. It gathers work by over 40 writers and artists, including Lenora de Barros (Brazil), Mirella Bentivoglio (Italy), Amanda Berenguer (Uruguay), Suzanne Bernard (France), Tomaso Binga (Italy), Blanca Calparsoro (Spain), Paula Claire (UK), Betty Danon (Turkey), Mirtha Dermisache (Argentina), Ilse Garnier (France), Anna Bella Geiger (Brazil), Bohumila Grögerová (Czech Republic), Ana Hatherly (Portugal), Susan Howe (USA), Tamara Jankovic (Serbia), Annalies Klophaus (Germany), Barbara Kozlowska (Poland), Liliana Landi (Italy), Liliane Lijn (USA), Françoise Mairey (France), Giulia Niccolai (Italy), Jennifer Pike (UK), Giovanna Sandri (Italy), Mira Schendel (Brazil), Chima Sunada (Japan), Mary Ellen Solt (USA), Salette Tavares (Portugal), Colleen Thibaudeau (Canada), Rosmarie Waldrop (USA) and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (Germany).

Border Blurs

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Author: Greg Thomas

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2019-11-19

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1789624444

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This book considers the relationship between English and Scottish poets and the international concrete poetry movement of the 1950s-1970s, focusing on the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay, Edwin Morgan, Dom Sylvester Houédard and Bob Cobbing. It will be a vital resource for students and scholars of modernism, intermedia art and British literature.

Blue Lipstick

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Author: John Grandits

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9780618568604

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A collection of poems about high school.

The Translation and Transmission of Concrete Poetry

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Author: John Corbett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-23

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1351382284

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This volume addresses the global reception of "untranslatable" concrete poetry. Featuring contributions from an international group of literary and translation scholars and practitioners, working across a variety of languages, the book views the development of the international concrete poetry movement through the lens of "transcreation", that is, the informed, creative response to the translation of playful, enigmatic, visual texts. Contributions range in subject matter from ancient Greek and Chinese pattern poems to modernist concrete poems from the Americas, Europe and Asia. This challenging body of experimental work offers creative challenges and opportunities to literary translators and unique pleasures to the sympathetic reader. Highlighting the ways in which literary influence is mapped across languages and borders, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of experimental poetry, translation studies and comparative literature.