Mary Ellen Solt (1920–2007)
Autor/a de Concrete Poetry: A World View
Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: Photo ©Catherine Solt, c.1980. Used with permission.
Obres de Mary Ellen Solt
Obres associades
Possibilities of Poetry: An Anthology of American Contemporaries (1970) — Col·laborador — 17 exemplars
Epitaphs for Lorine — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Origin, Second Series, No. 6, July 1962 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Poor Old Tired Horse, Number 13 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1920-07-08
- Data de defunció
- 2007-06-21
- Gènere
- female
- Lloc de naixement
- Gilmore City, Iowa, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Warsaw, Poland - Educació
- Iowa State Teachers College
University of Iowa (MA) - Professions
- concrete poet
- Relacions
- Solt, Leo Frank (husband)
Barnstone, Willis (collaborator) - Organitzacions
- Indiana University
Membres
Ressenyes
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 2
- També de
- 4
- Membres
- 27
- Popularitat
- #483,027
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 2
- ISBN
- 3
That, in itself, seems to fail as a definition for me. The cover's poem has the word "FORSYTHIA" at its base w/ other words growing out of it that begin w/ the same letter that these words originate from. From these words come the beginning letter placed as if they're buds or flowers on a limb of the forsythia plant. It's not a very complicated poem, it's a simple picture poem. I like it just fine but is it really an example of "concentration upon the physical material from which the poem or text is made"? It seems to me that the poem is made from the physical materials of paper, ink, & paint. Maybe the pigment is made from a forsythia plant. I reckon it's possible that the pigment & the paper cd both have plant origins. My point is that Solt seems to be conflating what the words refer to w/ what they are physically.
That aside, I don't really care to nitpick here. It was just something to write. The bk's full of interesting pictures that create calculated relationships between words & images & that's something I totally enjoy. There's even the following Ronald Johnson piece that I'd forgotten about:
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I made a window shade once that had that cut out of it. As the window shade went up or down, the eye level went up & down w/ it.… (més)