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(Noigandres Group, Stefan Themerson, Edwin Morgan) :
sometimes it is closer to painting where neither phrases,
words nor letters can be deciphered and simply create
an abstract pattern (Franz Mon, Ferdinand Kriwet, John
Furnival). When the poem is purely phonetic it comes
closest to music (Bernard Heidsieck, Henri Chopin).
Occasionally concrete poetry relates almost equally to
the visual, semantic and phonetic possibilities (Ernst
Jandl, Hansjörg Mayer, Max Bense). It would be
difficult, however, to plot an exact graph and decide
precisely where each concrete poem belongs in
relation to art, literature, and music; and as for the
concrete poets themselves, it is almost impossible to
group them with any degree of accuracy since their
work has considerable variety.
One can consider concrete poetry from yet another
angle. In his book Physics and Philosophy, Werner
Heisenberg wrote: 'Equality and inequality, repetition
and symmetry, certain group structures, play the funda-
mental role both in art and in mathematics'. This applies

Franz Mon Hansjorg Mayer Henri Chopin
Poster poem Collage Typoem Oil Les symboles 'incomprehensible'
Frankfurt 1963 Stuttgart 1965 maquette and realization by S. Beguier, Paris 1965
76¾ x 38 1/8 in.

Augusto de Compos
Concrete Poem
Sao Paulo
Key eixo : axis
olho : eye
polo: pole
fixo : fixed
flor: flower
peso: weight
solo : earth

Abraham A. Moles Gertrude Stein
Permutationellen Kunst from Cooking

Alas, alas the pull alas the bell alas the coach
in china, alas the little put in leaf alas the
wedding butter meat, alas the receptacle, alas
the back shape of mussle, mussle and soda.

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