Eugen Gomringer (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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As the leading theoretician of concrete poetry in Europe, Eugen Gomringer has also published essays, manifestos, and lectures, including the important and provocatively titled Poesie als Mittel der Umweltgestaltung (poetry as a means of shaping the environment). In addition, most of his theoretical texts were reprinted in his best-known collection of poems, Worte sind Schatten. Gomringer has also promoted the school of concrete poetry as an editor of journals and collections. In 1953, he cofounded the journal Spirale and served as the...
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