CONTACT WITH POETS

(1966) and the people mover: a demonstration poem (1978)
assert her voice as antonio bessa argues
not by simply emulating [her male counterparts], but
by bringing up themes and concerns close to her own
life: the flowers in her garden […] her husband […] and
her children.
but the themes and concerns that bessa asserts sadly seem
to reify sexist gender roles relegating women to the subjects
of flowers spousal dedication and child-rearing concrete
poet haroldo de campos posited concrete poetry as a notion
of literature not as craftsmanship but [...] as an industrial process
where the poem is a prototype rather than the typical
handiwork of artistic artistry this formulation categorizes
solts work as craftsmanship and handiwork isolated from the
industry of male concrete poets tellingly only 4 of the 80
contributors to concrete poetry: a world view are women including
solt
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contemporary concrete poets fiona banner jen bervin and
erica baum work against the traditional notions of feminine
writing and trouble the line between craftsmanship handiwork
and industry on friday october 11 2012 patrons of denvers
museum of contemporary art attended a moment of sartorial
calm before the weekends festivities began—the vernissage of
postscript: writing after conceptual art the largest exhibit ever
staged at the MCA postscript: writing after conceptual art
was the first major exhibition of conceptual writing—the 21st
centurys first truly international poetic form—and text-based art
and included internationally-renowned text artists and writers
building upon the tenets and dicta of conceptual art and con-
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