Thursday, May 6, 2010

Concrete Poetry

Many, many years ago I was exposed to the work of poet Pedro Xisto. His genre is concrete poetry, which can sometimes rise to a marriage between art and poetry.  As in this piece of his, titled Ephitalamiun. It's my favorite piece by him, and I have always remembered it from when I first encountered back in college.  I just found it while trawling for him on the web the other day. Hope you enjoy!

PS: Make sure to click and enlarge the 'key' on the bottom of the image is critical to interpreting the work...as is the meaning of the title.

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