Reading Visual Poetry examines works created in Spain, Latin America, France, Italy, Brazil, and the United States. Besides explicating individual works, it investigates the dynamics involved in reading (and viewing) visual poetry.
Reading Visual Poetry examines works created in Spain, Latin America, France, Italy, Brazil, and the United States. Besides explicating individual works, it investigates the dynamics involved in reading (and viewing) visual poetry.
Willard Bohn is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature at Illinois State University, USA. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including The Avant-Garde Imperative (2013); Marvelous Encounters: Surrealist Responses to Film, Art, Poetry and Architecture (2005), Italian Futurist Poetry (2005), The Dada Market: An Anthology of Poetry (1993), and The Aesthetics of Visual Poetry, 1914-1928 (1993). He has also published 130 articles in journals such as Romantic Review, Comparative Literature, French Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, The Art Bulletin, MLN, Hispanic Review, the Revue de Littérature Comparée, and Comparative Critical Studies.
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1 List of Illustrations 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 1. The Word Made Flesh Chapter 4 2. Spanish Ultraist Poetry Chapter 5 3. Hispano-American Poetry Chapter 6 4. French Poetry after Apollinaire Chapter 7 5. Italian Futurist Aeropoetry Chapter 8 6. Brazilian Concrete Poetry Chapter 9 7. Digital Poetry Chapter 10 8. Eyesight and Hindsight 11 Notes 12 Bibliography 13 Index
