The New Concrete Poetry: Object Poems by Geof Huth (Astoria, Queens, New York, USA) (NEW OBJECT POETRY Part 2)
"Stoen 254: in this act contained" by Geof Huth (Newport, North Carolina, USA) (September 2024) Recent Object Poems by Geof Huth By De Villo Sloan In my previous New Concrete interview with visual poet Terri Witek, I provided a context by sharing my observations about what I believe to be the emergence of a new iteration of an age-old poetic practice: Object Poetry. The New Object poem is likely to be three-dimensional and is often composed of randomly found, inexpensive materials. Various art, literature and music movements grounded in Neo-Concretism have had a powerful influence on recent developments in this postavant genre. Members of Fluxus exchanged Object Poems via their mail art network. Most New Object poems are shared in an environment of digital poetics. "In the milieu of New Object Poetry, there is no mediating poetic text. Simply stated: The object IS the poem. Text might or might not be used." In the milieu of New Object Poetry, the
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