arrigo lora  totino

 

 

 

the word shows its body

 

 

the vicissitudes of the historical development

 of the visual element in poetry

from the alexandrinian period

to contemporary experimentalism

 

 

english version

by eleonora vita heger

 

 

contents

                                         

introduction

word and sign

glossary

hellenistic paignions

 postalexandrinian paegnia

versus intexti

 ausoniustechnopaegnion 

 calligramme

the labyrinth and the permutational poem

 figural music

 symbolic figure trees

avant-gardes and iconism 

  concrete poetry

 oral poetry 

  word image writing