Reading Visual Poetry After Futurism: Marinetti, Apollinaire, Schwitters, Cummings

by Michael Webster

Early in the century, poets expanded the possibilities of their genre by creating sound poems, by dispensing with syntax and punctuation, and by arranging words and letters across the page in new visual patterns. This book explores ways of reading the aesthetically challenging and semiotically subversive texts created by four poets: F.T. Marinetti (1876-1944), Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) and e.e. cummings (1894-1962). The book shows us how to read...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820412929
• ISBN13: 9780820412924
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 239 Pages