Pattern Poetry

Guide to an Unknown Literature

Häftad, Engelska, 1987

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Pattern poetry-poetry from before 1900 that fuses literature and visual art-has existed since the times of ancient Crete and Egypt. Less well known than modern visual poetry, pattern poetry has been produced in most European and American literatures, and, as close analogues, in many oriental literatures.This book tells the history of pattern poetry, documenting and classifying more than 2,000 works. Illustrations of each major genre of pattern poem are included. The book also explores related forms, such as graphic music notations, shaped prose, sound poetry, and poetic labyrinths, to name a few. A glossary, essays by two world authorities on the oriental analogues to the pattern poem, and the first full bibliography on pattern poetry complete the work. With this book, Dick Higgins has provided an indispensable tool for opening up the area of pattern poetry to the scholar and the lay reader alike, bringing order to what has been an obscure and confusing area, and delighting the eye and mind by casting light on these forgotten treasures.

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Utgivningsdatum:1987-07-01
Mått:216 x 279 x 23 mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:286
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780887064142

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Dick Higgins is an artist, poet, and Research Associate of the School of the Arts at the State University of New York at Purchase. He has been studying pattern poetry since 1968, when he was publisher and designer of Emmett Williams' Anthology of Concrete Poetry, which introduced that type of modern visual poetry to North America. He keeps his studio and library in a former church at Barrytown, New York, in the Hudson River Valley.

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FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CHAPTER ONE A Short History of Pattern Poetry CHAPTER TWO Pattern Poems by Language and Literature GreekLatinHebrewHungarianItalianFrenchGermanScandinavianDutch and FlemishBritish and English-language LiteraturesHispanicSlavic: PolishSlavic (continued)Other European Languages and LiteraturesCHAPTER THREE Analogues of Pattern Poetry from Outside the European Languages and Literatures The Far EastThe Citrakavyas and Other Analogues in IndiaIslamic LiteraturesLanguages and Literatures in which no Pattern Poems have been Reported or Published CHAPTER FOUR Analogues of Pattern Poems Acrostics, Telestics, and MesosticsLapidary InscriptionsLeonine VerseMagical Inscriptions and FormulaeMathematical Arrays and PoemsMusical Analogues of Pattern PoetryProteus PoemsRebuses and Other Puzzle PoemsShaped ProseSound Poetry CHAPTER FIVE The Life and Death of Forms LabyrinthsManuscriptsHypotheses Towards a TheoryAPPENDIX I Chinese Patterned TextsBy Dr. Herbert FrankeAPPENDIX II Sanskrit Citrakavyas and the Western Pattern PoemsBy Dr. Kalanath Jha APPENDIX III A Glossary of Terms BIBLIOGRAPHY ArticlesBooksDissertationsSupplemetary BibliographyINDEX