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Philadelpho Menezes’s Poetics & Visuality offers an account of the development of extreme poetic practices in a country known for its commitment to experimentation. This richly illustrated history begins with spatialism, to which concretism comes as a corrective ordering in the early 1950s.
The “visual poetry” of the following decades is theorized as intersign poetry—collage, package, and montage poetries—a movement that drew international attention.
About the Author
Philadelpho Menezes (1960–2000) was a Brazilian poet, visual poet, pioneer of new-media poetry, and professor in the Communication and Semiology post-graduate program at the Pontifical University of São Paulo. He conducted post-graduate research at the University of Bologna in 1990. With Brazilian artist Wilton Azevedo, he created the pioneering intermedia-poetry CD-ROM InterPoesia. Poesia Hipermidia Interativa (1998), and in Italy he collaborated with the early net-poetry project Karenina.it.
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