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Literature > Poetry > Visual poetry > Concrete poetry

Preferred term

Concrete poetry  

Definition

  • 20th c. poetry, especially of the 1950s and 60s, in which language elements are arranged freely, not necessarily in linear syntax, and meaning is derived from spatial, pictorial and typographic characteristics of the work, as well as from the sense of the words [AAT, alt.]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Pattern poetry, concrete poetry
  • Poems, concrete
  • Poems, pattern, concrete poetry
  • Poems, shaped, concrete poetry
  • Poetry, concrete
  • Poetry, pattern, concrete poetry
  • Poetry, shaped, concrete poetry
  • Shaped poetry, concrete poetry
  • Visual poetry, concrete poetry

Notation

  • 117975

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-QRV4LRJT-D

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