Cover of Collected by Charlotte Jung (Sweden: Timglaset 2023) (Image courtesy of the artist) Essay/review - Collected: Concrete Poems by Charlotte Jung Malmo, Sweden: Timglaset (2023) 124 pages, perfect bound, 7” X 8” Review by De Villo Sloan In preparing to write this essay on the minimalist poetry of Charlotte Jung, I have been greatly assisted by the publication of Collected: Concrete Poems by Charlotte Jung . This edition was released in 2023 by Timglaset, the acclaimed Swedish publisher of postavant lit. Collected gathers the majority of Jung’s minimalist compositions to date, including the contents of entire chapbooks and longer sequences, among them C (2019), (SEED) (Timglaset 2020), Hole Being (No Press 2021), and RAPE ( The Blasted Tree 2022), among others. This substantial volume does much to establish Jung as an important, innovative minimalist poet of the 21 st century. Readers of contemporary visual poetr...
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