Poetxt, a weblog of contemporary poetics, meditates on derek beaulieu’s Kern:

From initial minimalistic designs repeating limited selections of typographical elements, the book progresses into ever more complex – and intricately chaotic – poems…or are they performances, designs, illustrations, or logos… beaulieu is right when he writes, “there is still no accepted critical vocabulary for concrete poetry” (fractal economics 79).

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