ANTHOLOGY OF CONCRETE POETRY by Emmett Williams

Something Else Press, 1967 First edition, 342 pp., 6 1/2" X 9 1/2", Hardcover

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The work of the 77 writers collected in this anthology varies greatly in its aims and forms, but all can be said to emphasize the visual dimension of language, manipulating individual letters and minimal semantic units to produce poems that are for contemplating as much as for reading. Emmett Williams, the book’s editor, added explanatory commentary for the poems and biographies of their authors, making this volume--long out of print--the definitive anthology of this movement, which has so influenced artists and writers of subsequent generations.