This is Edwin Morgan's "Archives." It's my favorite of the "simple" typewritten concrete poems in the from anthology of concretism, edited by Eugene Wildman (Chicago: Swallow Press, 1969):
We underestimate what a big breakthrough it was when Jerome Rothenberg in 1972 (one could say this was the height of the American Indian Movement — just to take that cut on the tiWe un
Robert Grenier (in Phantom Anthems, 1986) wrote what I think is an absolutely brilliant response to and satire of William Carlos Williams. Here it is:Butfor William Carlos Williamsthe young plum treelike a martiniwith new greenleaves how metricallikely & con-versant it wouldhave been today towrite a true imagist poem
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This is Edwin Morgan's "Archives." It's my favorite of the "simple" typewritten concrete poems in the
from anthology of concretism, edited by Eugene Wildman (Chicago: Swallow Press, 1969):
Sacred technician 1: Quietly have with love
Big postmodern but
Robert Grenier (in Phantom Anthems, 1986) wrote what I think is an absolutely brilliant response to and satire of William Carlos Williams. Here it is:
But
for William Carlos Williams
the young plum tree
like a martini
with new green
leaves how metrical
likely & con-
versant it would
have been today to
write a true imagist poem
Sunrise at Giant Ledge
Teaching consensus through dissensus