A survey of the renewed interest in concrete poetry in the digital age. The accessibility of digital text and image manipulation, modern print techniques, and the rise of self-publishing has invigorated various returns to a movement that first emerged in an explosion of literary creativity during the 1950s and 1960s.
This anthology is an illustrated overview of contemporary artists and poets working at the intersection of visual art and literature, who produce engaging and challenging work in either medium.
My contribution came from the Andre After Andre series (2012), in which I transmute Carl Andre's sculptural works back to the page: the sculpture's material determines the poem's language, and its topography dictates the poem's form.
Edited by poets Victoria Bean and Chris McCabe, with an introductory essay by Kenneth Goldsmith, The New Concrete is an introduction to the breadth of concrete poetry being produced today. It can be purchased through Cornerhouse Publications here.
