Moonlight

Concrete poetry is a term appeared in the early fifties. The term came simultaneously in three countries : Switzerland, Swiss and Brazil. Concrete poetry concentrate on how the poem looks on a page by changing line breaks, word spacing, line length and fonts. The way they they take the words out of the poem and the letters out of the words and play with their relation to the page can slightly alter the meaning of the text, however, the idea is very interesting. The visual form of the poem is as important as the words that make it . The reader can appreciate both the meaning and the visual form of the poem. This kind of representation makes poetry easier to feel and understand.
The new visual poem has made us aware of poetic content in the typographycal medium. When we know what the language is, what the poem is, we will know whether or not these texts are poetry. In terms of what we know about concrete poetry, these non-semantic visual poems present pattern and reticulation of visual linguistic elements that convey a nonspecific spiritual or aesthetic message

"Breezes," by Court Smith, THE WINDLESS ORCHARD

"Urban High Rises," by Court Smith

"Shaped Salmon," by Court Smith

Reference:

http://oregonstate.edu/~smithc/vita/concrpoe.html
http://www.gardendigest.com/concrete/
http://www.gardendigest.com/concrete/cvp52.htm

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