Concrete Poetry
Her best known work is the controversial Exit Strategies. This prose/poem cycle was praised by E. E. Cummings as "poetry as pure energy...just in time for atomic age", but similarly condemned by others for the same qualities.
The famous 400 stanza, Eanie Meanie poem:
- Eanie Meanie Minie Meanie
- Mo Mo Moonie Minie
- Eanie Moonie Moonie Meanie
- Oonie Eanie Moonie Me
- ....
has few andecedents in the English language: language was to her pure sound, its meaning lost in our collective past
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Famous quotes containing the word concrete:
“We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.”
—Salvador Dali (1904–1989)