Name: Pre-Poetry
SKU: 68894564
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Author: Vlado Martek
ISBN: 9781954218499

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Pre-Poetry

Vlado Martek (Author) · World Poetry Books · Paperback

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Synopsis "Pre-Poetry"

Vlado Martek's ars poetica combines minimalism and conceptualism in a theoretically-driven wrestling match between the materiality of writing and the metaphysics of poetry. Pre-Poetry collects Martek's short poems, mini-essays, and visual and performance works from the late 1970s and early '80s. Martek's work of this period builds on the strategies of the Zagreb-based Group of Six Authors and other representatives of the second generation of conceptual art and experimental poetics in Yugoslavia. For Martek, "pre-poetry" engages the material foundations and physical effort of the work of poetry. In a certain sense analogous to "non-art" in visual arts, pre-poetry also calls attention to throwaway phrases, linguistic cliches and ambiguities, and the visual aspects of language. Rejecting generic categories of visual and concrete poetry, Pre-Poetry reveals Martek's intriguing connections with poets and conceptual artists from other parts of the world and marks the first major English-language publication of his poetic output.