http://www.ubu.com/historical/saroyan/pages/pages.html
http://www.ubu.com/ethno/poems/09.html
http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/text/vp/piringer_gravity_2012.pdf
http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/text/vp/fuck_you_a_magazine_of_the_arts_1.pdf
http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/text/vp/parr_found_poems_1972.pdf
http://www.ubu.com/contemp/bernstein/veil2.html
http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/text/vp/finch_typewriter_poems_1972.pdf
http://www.ubu.com/aspen/aspen6A/skyChange.html
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith/goldsmith_winter.html
http://www.ubu.com/historical/becher/index.html
1. Adam Saroyan’s “Pages” is a great example of several
different types of contemporary or
“language” poetry. The poems address how type appears on
page, the one line poem, word
repetition and creating words such as “lobstee.” Saroyan is
conscious with how the arraignment
of words on the the page affects the context of what is
written. His poetry is not trying to be
anything more than what it is. In other words it is simply
conceived language typed on a page. !
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2. Spring Fjord!
!!!!! after Paul Emil Victor, Pomes Eskimo!
I was out in my kayak!
I was out at sea in it!
I was paddling!
very gently in the fjord Ammassivik!
there was ice in the water!
and on the water a petrel!
turned his head this way that way!
didn't see me paddling!
Suddenly nothing but his tail!
then nothing!
He plunged but not for me:!
huge head upon the water!
great hairy seal!
giant head with giant eyes, moustache!
all shining and dripping!
and the seal came gently toward me!
Why didn't I harpoon him?!
was I sorry for him?!
was it the day, the spring day, the seal!
playing in the sun!
like me?!
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This is the most “poetic” of the works I've chosen as it is
created largely on how it is using
language. Which in this case is used in a more traditional
poetic manner. However while it
retains a more traditional look and feel, it has a spoken
word quality that separates it. I am also
drawn to the poem became it includes a subtle the lesson
that can be gained from reading it. !
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3. Gravity by Jorg Piringer !
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I think this is visual poetry at its finest. Even attempting
to create any sort of sentence structure
is meaningless as far as I'm concerned, and in saying that,
I would not call this poetry. This is
visual art through the use of text, while it uses shape and
forum that is the same as our
alphabet, the final forum of the piece becomes something that
only vaguely resembles text and
poetry. !
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4. “Fuck You/ A Magazine of the Arts” !
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“Fuck You” is an example of what happens when you give
creative minds the freedom to be
brash and annoying without fear of any real consequence. The
zine created a space for how
this type of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry should be presented.
Words not assembled pristinely
on the page and bound neatly among other pages. Instead the
poems in “Fuck You” appear
temporary, as though the page could fall out of the magazine
and become lost forever. And that
would be okay. !
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!. Found Poems !
-Malcolm Parr!
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I am interested in “Found Poems” because it is proof of the
unlikely places where you can find
the beauty of language. Although sometimes it takes the mind
of another to shed light on it. It
also is similar if not the same as my interest in creating
poetics from overhead conversations. !
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6. Charles Bernstein’s !
Veil #2!
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Another example of visual poetry, Veil #2, a physical block
of text on the page, gives weight to
words in a way I haven’t seen before. The text block feels
as though it could fall through the
page. ! !
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7. Type Writer Poems !
-Peter Finch !
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A combination, if not the bringing together of two worlds. A
slice of concrete poetry combined
with visual poetry. While some entries at first appear to
have a pure visual poetry look, they can
still be deciphered or in other words, you can dig through
the form to find the poetry within. Type
Writer Poems expands the relationship with !
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8. Aspen no.6A!
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Specifically within this issue the piece entitled sky/change.
It reminds me very much of
“Grapefruit”, Instructions that can’t be followed out. It
makes me think about how text effects our
world. Why we obey some of it and ignore other parts. If you
someone could carry out the
instructions in “sky/change, would they. !
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9.The Weather !
by Kenneth Goldsmith !
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It is a rambling of thoughts. A typed out document of what
everyone listens to but immediately
forgets. Fragmentations of thought and sentences. It doesn't
try to look pleasing or even sound
beautiful. But at the same time “The Weather” makes
beautiful poetry out of something that we
talk about the most. !
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10. Bernd & Hilla Becher !
Im including this in my list because I think most people
would question why it’s on a poetry
collection. It’s not visual poetry…well actually is it’s
just not poetry. The Becher’s took
photographs, they took photograph to show distinctive
similarity in structures. They then showed
theses similarities to people in other countries. From the
book- Our selections are obvious but it
has taken us many years to realize they are obvious. In the
end the form is the same, it proves
that language or poetry can be translated and twisted in
various forms. But it is not until you
view them all together that you see that they are the same.
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