Research Catalog

Title

Toward total poetry / Adriano Spatola ; translated from the Italian by Brendan W. Hennessey & Guy Bennett, with an afterword by Guy Bennett.

Author

Spatola, Adriano.

Publication

Los Angeles : Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hennessey, Brendan W.
• Bennett, Guy.

Description

169 p. : ill.; 20 cm.

Summary

"The problem is not only to transform poetry into something new compared to poetic tradition, but above all that through this transformation poetry become a total art. New experimental poetry is no longer exclusively interpretable as a force modifying the usual instruments of poetic creation, or as the necessity of overcoming national linguistic barriers to an explicitly international poetry. Today it seeks to become a total medium, to escape all limitations, to include theater, photography, music, painting, typography, cinematographic techniques, and every other aspect of culture, in a utopian ambition to return to origins."--Jacket

Uniform Title

Verso la poesia totale. English

Alternative Title

Verso la poesia totale.

Subject

• Concrete poetry > History and criticism
• Visual poetry > History and criticism
• Experimental poetry > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-157) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From "category" to "continuity" -- Experimental poetry and experiments in poetry -- Technological styles and total poetry -- Alphabet and calligraphy -- Typographic styles -- From silence to movement -- From "constellation" to negative black -- From "surface" text to "extensive collage" -- Solipsism or behavior?

ISBN

• 9780979617720
• 0979617723

OCLC

• 244767843
• SCSB-12282691

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library