visual poetry

OAB Definition

poetry in which the visual arrangement or text, with the possible addition of images and symbols, is important to convey the intended effect of the work.

In Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature, Dick Higgins describes visual poetry as “the intermedium between literary and visual art,” and uses it “as a comprehensive term covering the whole of pattern and more recent visual poetry.”

ABT Definition

Poetry in which the visual arrangement of text, images, and symbols is important to convey the intended effect of the work.     

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