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César Espinosa (ed.), translated by Harry Polkinhorn:
CORROSIVE SIGNS: ESSAYS ON EXPERIMENTAL POETRY
(VISUAL, CONCRETE, ALTERNATIVE)


Maisonneuve Press
PO Box 2980
Washington DC, 20013


129 pp., $9.95

A welcome dose of international perspective on experimental underground literature. Visual & concrete poetry has a strong heritage in Spanish-speaking countries, and this anthology presents a variety of essays on it's history & practice. They are collected from a variety of sources, and don't hang together in any kind of order, but taken as a whole seem to cover a lot of ground. Includes a couple-dozen examples of work, which mostly serve to whet the appetite for more--a 50/50 mix of samples/essay would've been nice.--luigi


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This review originally appeared in TapRoot Reviews #2,
Copyright Burning Press 1993, 1995.

Contact the editor, luigi-bob drake, at Burning Press