textual poetry

Poetry consisting of words without any significant visual cotext. (Textual
poetry presents us with blocks of text that we must interpret before we can
hear and see their beauty, but visual poems exist on page or screen or stone,
and we love their shape before we love their sense.)
Geof Huth
Origin: [dbqp: visualizing poetics]
1/2004

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