Bob Grumman and Crag Hill edit this anthology of "visio-textual art," sometimes known as visual poetry. Generous selections from twelve major practicioners of the form will instantly make this one of the key anthologies of this lesser-known branch of writing and art--and this is only the first volume. During a century when painters around the world began to incorporate text into their pieces, Grumman and Hill document the same phenomenon from the other side--poets and writers who found the visual structures of standard typography to be too restricting for their visions. The writer-artist in each section is allowed to discuss their own motivations for becoming a visio-textual artist, and the reasons are diverse and compelling. Work by Carol Stetser, Scott Helmes, Bill Keith, Joel Lipman, Guy R. Beining, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, David Cole, Kathy Ernst, Karl Young, Harry Polkinhorn, Bill Fox and Karl Kempton.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
nothing spectacular,
By adead_poet@hotmail.com "adead_poet@hotmail.com" (Beaumont, tx USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)
This review is from: Writing To Be Seen (Paperback)
One of the editors, Bob Grumman, suggested I read this book as an introduction to visual poetry. I'm not sure how good of an introduction to visual poetry I'd say this book is. Most of the work inside I would call visual art that uses text and words in the piece. There are a few 'visual poems'. But it is subtitled 'visio-textual art' so I guess it delivers on what it claims to. The problem is that most of the work inside isn't very good. This 'poetry' isn't mainstream because of the establishment or The Man keeping them down, it's not well-known because it isn't very good.
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