English
619:003 / Spring 2005 / Susan Tichy / George Mason
University
CONCRETE
VISUAL «««««««
Week 7 March 8
COLLAGE
2500 Years of Visual Poems /
Making an Emblem
MAIN
What to read before today:
Bookstore Reader:
Grimm: Poems and/as
Pictures
Ubuweb: the world's best single source for concrete, visual, & sound poetry
The Early Visual Poetry
exhibits are scanned from Grimm's essay, but they show up far better
than in the photocopies. http://www.ubu.com/historical/early/early.html
On the artist index page http://www.ubu.com/artist_index.html use the "historical" column to find work by writers whose names you find in your readings this week and next -- including Guillaume Apollinaire, Augusto de Campos, Haraldo de Campos, John Furnival, Eugen Gomringer, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ernst Jandl, Ronald Johnson, Emmett Williams, the French Letterists, and others. At this link http://www.ubu.com/historical/mallarme/mallarme.html you'll find Mallarmé's "Un Coup de Des."
On the artist index page http://www.ubu.com/artist_index.html use the "historical" column to find work by writers whose names you find in your readings this week and next -- including Guillaume Apollinaire, Augusto de Campos, Haraldo de Campos, John Furnival, Eugen Gomringer, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ernst Jandl, Ronald Johnson, Emmett Williams, the French Letterists, and others. At this link http://www.ubu.com/historical/mallarme/mallarme.html you'll find Mallarmé's "Un Coup de Des."
Class Photocopies, Packet 1: all poems
A Book of the Book:
Mignolo: Signs and Their
Transmission
...& browse the section called "The Book Is as Old as Fire & Water"
...& browse the section called "The Book Is as Old as Fire & Water"
Optional reading from War and Peace--
Robert Grenier: Untitled
What we'll do in class / what to bring:
Workshop your books & their itineraries, pattern poems, iconic poems..
Discuss Grimm, including definitions.
Bring short texts, short poems, pieces of longer poems, pictures, symbols or objects you might want to work with in making an emblem book. And a few sheets of 8.5 x 11 paper you want to work with or share.
MAKE: Inner Text emblem book
For Next Week:
A visual poem