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

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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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