theworldisconcrete: Article: ‘Looking At and Looking Through: Futurism, Dada, and Concrete Poetry’ ‘Concrete poems continued the typographic experimentation begun by the Futurists, requiring readers to look both “at” and “through” language simultaneously. Thus, as Simanowski wrote, “concrete poetry deals with the relation between the visible form and the intellectual substance of words. It is visual…because it adds the optical gesture of the word to its semantic meaning.”’ See Full Article Here

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Article: ‘Looking At and Looking Through: Futurism, Dada, and Concrete Poetry’

‘Concrete poems continued the typographic experimentation begun by the Futurists, requiring readers to look both “at” and “through” language simultaneously. Thus, as Simanowski wrote, “concrete poetry deals with the relation between the visible form and the intellectual substance of words. It is visual…because it adds the optical gesture of the word to its semantic meaning.”’

See Full Article Here

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    I look at and look through just you.
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