Granary, paperback
Publication Date: May 20, 2025
Publisher Marketing: By the 1960s, visual and experimental poetry was widely acknowledged as the first truly international poetry movement, occurring on several continents. The simultaneous "mimeograph revolution," an emerging name for the proliferation of small, poet- and artist-operated presses and little magazines that emerged in the postwar era, meant that an extraordinary variety of experimental work appeared in ephemeral outlets, often reflecting an array of geographic influence and communities.This book is a thematic journey through the history of these experimental poetics and their material forms. The book catalogs a summer 2025 exhibition by the same name at the Grolier Club in New York City, and explores cut-up, collage, sound poetry scores, performance scripts, practices of "writing through," erasure, asemic writing, glyph systems, calligraphy, experimental typography, non-Western alphabets, assemblages, and beyond.
