Concrete poetry¶

concrete_poetry · visual · catalogued

A poem in which typography and spatial arrangement carry the meaning as much as the words do.

Provenance¶

Source: Eugen Gomringer, Konstellationen (1953)
Attribution: primary — a named author, work and year this catalogue stands behind
Checkability: none — no computable acceptance criterion exists
Attested: author-stated — the originator set this rule down

Details¶

Kind: constructive
Languages: en
Requires: tokens
Deterministic: no
In other languages: Konkrete Poesie (de), Poésie concrète (fr)

Prompt hint¶

Let the placement and typography of the words carry as much as the words themselves.

Why this has no checker¶

This procedure has no computable acceptance criterion, so it will never be implemented. It is catalogued because the form belongs in an honest survey of the field, and denckring status counts it separately rather than reporting a gap that cannot close.