Pattern Poetry, Dick Higgins, editor
Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature
Offset printed book, hard cover with dj, color
cover and b&w illus., 11.75”x8.25”, 284 pp, 1st prtg. SUNY Press, 1987
Pattern poetry from before 1900 that fuses
literature and visual art has existed since the times of ancient Crete and
Egypt. Less well known than modern visual poetry, pattern poetry has been
produced in most European and American literatures, and, as close analogues, in
many oriental literatures.
This book tells the history of pattern poetry, documenting and classifying more
than 2,000 works. Illustrations of each major genre of pattern poem are
included. The book also explores related forms, such as graphic music
notations, shaped prose, sound poetry, and poetic labyrinths, to name a few. A
glossary, essays by two world authorities on the oriental analogues to the
pattern poem, and the first full bibliography on pattern poetry complete the
work. With this book, Dick Higgins has provided an indispensable tool for
opening up the area of pattern poetry to the scholar and the lay reader alike,
bringing order to what has been an obscure and confusing area, and delighting
the eye and mind by casting light on these forgotten treasures.
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