Tag: concrete poetry

  • “I Want My Hand in the Fire”: An Interview with Jon Woodward by Zach Savich

    “I Want My Hand in the Fire”: An Interview with Jon Woodward by Zach Savich

    Jon Woodward’s new chapbook, POOLGOER and SPELEOGRAPHER from The Economy Press, is composed of columns that streak down the page 1 or 2 letters at a time. The effect is immensely absorbing, pleasurable, enlivening; each page is rippled with columns. Concrete poetry that directly imitates shapes (e.g., a poem about a flower that looks like…

  • “Ghost Tree,” a concrete visual poem by Tara Campbell for Haunted Passages

    “Ghost Tree,” a concrete visual poem by Tara Campbell for Haunted Passages

    InMuirWoodsthere areredwood treesthat are completelywhite, lacking allchlorophyll. They’re called ghost trees, and theydot the forest, ivory boughsglowing against a backgroundof cinnamon bark and pine-needle green.Because they don’t have chlorophyll these albino trees aren’t able tophotosynthesize. They can’t producetheir own food, relying instead on nutrientsfrom the redwoods around them, absorbed throughan underground network of roots and…