Fluxus poetry is normally created during a performance, an essential difference with visual poetry. The result of the performance can be a text, a visual poem, etc. Dick Higgins was one of the leading Fluxus people who also published his concrete poetry and invented Intermedia. Litsa Spathi developed the concept of Fluxus Poetry where the performance itself creates the result, a Fluxus Poem. With the use of computers a new result is generated after each performance. It is characterized by very quick cuts, that is several images per second, by wit, by the use of letters as a substitute for words. When the result is a video appropriate minimalist music is added. Fluxus Poetry is published by the Fluxus Heidelberg Center that is run by Litsa Spathi and Ruud Janssen and is located in Heidelberg, Germany.
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“I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life- outfit of a human being. It was the greatest of blessings to me, in the long days of toil to which I was shut in much earlier than most young girls are, that the poetry I held in my memory breathed its enchanted atmosphere through me and around me, and touched even dull drudgery with its sunshine.”
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