Artes Hispanicas / Hispanic Arts. Volume 1 Number 3 & 4, Concrete Poetry special

Richmond, VA, The Macmillan Company for Indiana University Press, 1968. A Magazine of Literature, Music and Visual Arts, edited by Willis Barnstone. Softcover, 25.5 x 21.5 cm, 312 pp. printed in b/w with some plates in colour, and one tipped in fold-out. Cover poem by Augusto de Campos.

This issue features a globally focused survey of concrete poetry with contributions by Julien Blaine, Jean-François Bory, Edgard Braga, Max Bensen, Claus Bremer, Augusto and Haroldo de Campos, E. M. de Melo e Castro, Henri Chopin, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim, John Furnival, Pierre and Ilse Garnier, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Kitasono Katué, Ferdinand Kriwet, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Hansjörg Mayer, Franz Mon, Ladislav Novák, Diter Rot (Dieter Roth), Adriano Spatola, Salette Tavares, Paul de Vree, Emmett Williams, Pedro Xisto and many others. Also contains Mary Ellen Solt’s essay titled ‘A World Look at Concrete Poetry’ as well as short biographies of each contributing artist. Discolouration and rubbing on cover and spine, interior very good.