Thesis (M.F.A.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2008. / Directed by Amy Lixl-Purcell; submitted to Dept. of Art. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Aug. 27, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 10).

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This project explores visually experimental poetry as a particular trend in Caribbean poetry since the 1970's. Although visual experimentation in Caribbean poetry is immediately recognizable ??? for example, its play with font styles and sizes, its jagged margins, its division of the page into multiple discourse spaces, its use of images ??? little critical attention has been paid to the visual qualities of Caribbean poetry. Instead, definitions of Caribbean poetry have remained focussed upon oral/aural aesthetics, excluding its use of and contribution to late 20th century experimental poetic practice. By focussing on the poetry of Shake Keane, Claire Harris, Marlene Nourbese Philip, Kamau Brathwaite, and LeRoy Clarke, I bring post-colonial literary criticism into discussion with contemporary debates regarding visual poetic practice in North America. In so doing, this project values Caribbean visual poetry both for its expression of Caribbean cultural experience and for its contributions to broader experimental poetry movements. I argue that visual experimentation functions to disrupt traditional linear reading processes, which thereby allows poets to perform the flux of time and space in post-colonial contexts. Furthermore, such disruption of linear reading practices, often manifested by the positioning of multiple discourses on one page, serves to create a polyvocal discourse that resists patriarchal and colonialist power structures. Valuing the visual qualities of Caribbean poetry as signifying elements, this dissertation explores the aesthetic and social implications of inscription and visual design in Caribbean poetry.

Orientador: Prof. Dr. Omar Khoouri / Banca: Milton sogabe / Resumo: Poesia e design : dois modos distintos de lidar com a linguagem. O design gráfico lida com o desenho, a formatação escrita, dispondo textos e imagens no espaço gráfico. A poesia, quando passa a incorporar elementos advindos dos signos visuais urbanos, da publicidade , da comunicação gráfica, apropria-se das possibilidades semânticas sugeridas pela fusão de texto com imagens A partir da explosão de códigos e meios causada pela Revolução Industrial, poesia e design tendem a aproximar-se já que a escrita poética também começa a operar com ferramentas comuns do design gráfico. As duas artes ocupam-se com diferentes nuanças da mesma prática: a escrita icônica. Com o objetivo de identificar os entrelaçamentos entre a poesia visual e o design gráfico, esta pesquisa expõe os conceitos básicos da poesia visual, aprofundando-se nas explorações gráficas e poéticas através da dimensão visual da escrita; estuda o desenvolvimento das tecnologias de produção gráfica que possibilitaram a hibridação de linguagens bem como a facilidade de produção e distribuição das comunicações gráficas; investiga as relações que a poesia visual e o design gráfico estabelecem com os meios de comunicação e como se inserem e se comportam na cultura amplificada, finalmente, resgata três caos de parcerias notórias entre poetas e designers que resultaram em trabalhos de grande valor estético e histórico. Ao tratar de temas tão carregados de visualidade, naturalmente a pesquisa trouxe muitos achados iconográficos - reproduções de poemas, trabalhos de design, tipografias, etc. Aliando a formação e a prática profissional da mestranda - designer gráfica - com o tema da pesquisa, terminou-se por realizar um projeto gráfico para abrigar o conteúdo da pesquisa, entrelaçando o texto e as imagens do trabalho. / Abstract: Poetry and design: two different ways of working the language. Graphic design deals with the shape and the formatting ofthe writting, it places texts and images within the graphic space. Poetry, as soon as it incorporates sings from the urban scene from advertising, from graphic communications, it takes advantage of the semantic possibilities that are given by the fusion of text and images. Since the booming of new codes and new media, brought by the Industrial Revolution, poetry and design got even closer to each other. Both arts poetry and design practice the iconic writing. Aiming to identify the intercaling between visual poetry and graphic design, this research exposes basic concepts of visual poetry, immerging into the explorations of the visual reality of the writing; it studies the development of graphic production that improved the merging of codes as well the spreading of graphlic communications; it investigates the relations that the visual poetry and graphic design estabilished with and the amplified culture ; finally the research relates three suseccsful encounters between poets and designers. Dealing with themes that are so visually rich this rearch brought up many iconic treasures. Putting the author's profession - graphic designer - and the researche theme together, this work resulted into a graphic project designet to contain and to interlace the text and the images that were born from this research. / Mestre

This paper includes a 62-page book of original poems, 19 pages of which are visual poetry, and a 29-page preface which discusses visual poetry.

This project explores visually experimental poetry as a particular trend in Caribbean poetry since the 1970's. Although visual experimentation in Caribbean poetry is immediately recognizable – for example, its play with font styles and sizes, its jagged margins, its division of the page into multiple discourse spaces, its use of images – little critical attention has been paid to the visual qualities of Caribbean poetry. Instead, definitions of Caribbean poetry have remained focussed upon oral/aural aesthetics, excluding its use of and contribution to late 20th century experimental poetic practice. By focussing on the poetry of Shake Keane, Claire Harris, Marlene Nourbese Philip, Kamau Brathwaite, and LeRoy Clarke, I bring post-colonial literary criticism into discussion with contemporary debates regarding visual poetic practice in North America. In so doing, this project values Caribbean visual poetry both for its expression of Caribbean cultural experience and for its contributions to broader experimental poetry movements. I argue that visual experimentation functions to disrupt traditional linear reading processes, which thereby allows poets to perform the flux of time and space in post-colonial contexts. Furthermore, such disruption of linear reading practices, often manifested by the positioning of multiple discourses on one page, serves to create a polyvocal discourse that resists patriarchal and colonialist power structures. Valuing the visual qualities of Caribbean poetry as signifying elements, this dissertation explores the aesthetic and social implications of inscription and visual design in Caribbean poetry.

This practice‐based research is a long creative work about Alan Turing. It consists of a series that includes prose, narrative poems and visual poems. An accompanying critical commentary, which is split into three sections, addresses the relationship between narrative and seriality, ways in which scientific notations can be used in visual poetry, and aspects of biographical and civil poetry. A finalsection contains a selection of creative approaches to commentary that reflect on research in a manner that is complementary to the critical commentary. The research was carried out through a process of repeated planning and experimentation that has resulted in a variety of forms and procedures, ranging from the accessible and conventional to the idiosyncratic and experimental. A method of investigating narrative was created by allowing narrative and serial formsto intersect throughout the creative work. A means of bringing science and literature into relation was sought through a process of forceful combination of scientific notations with literary or occult materials. And alternative possibilities for biographical poetry were investigated through resistance to celebration and through experiment with formal propertiesin poetry that could be appropriate to Turing. The creative work and critical commentary find new models for the relationship between narrative and seriality in which the will to create narrative is not denied and seriality is not a mere absence of narrative. They find new means by which science and literature can come into contact through visual poetry. They help to define a unique role for poetry in biographical writing in the way that poetry allows the subject to be embodied formally. And they set up a productive dialogue between experimental andmore established writing strategies.

Orientador: Omar Khouri / Resumo: Trabalho crítico-criativo sobre poesia visual. O elástico conceito de ideograma norteou este trabalho. Estrutura. Movimento. Seleção e crítica. Ordenação. Justaposição. de fragmentos. Redes de associações. Conexões. Processos e não produtos acabados. Crescimento sígnico. Universo diagramático. Método heurístico. Poesia e linguagem. O texto é um diagrama, icônico. Aprofundamento. Poesia Concreta. Criou-se a personagem Rrosé Selavy Duchampignon, que relaciona poesia e Duchamp. Síntese criativa. Recorte. Colagem. Montagem. Trabalho com apropriações. Nesta dissertação-livro-de-artista também são apresentados alguns trabalhos de poesia visual. E um termo de compromisso com a arte. Registrado em cartório. / Abstract: Critic-creative work about visual poetry. The elastic ideogram concept guided this work. Structure. Movement. Selection and criticism. O verplapping of fragments. Associantion networks. Connections. Processes and not finished products. Signic growth. Diagrammatic universe. Heuristic method. Poetry and language. The text is an iconic diagram. Deepening. Concrete poetry. The character Rrosé Selavy Duchampignon, relating poetry and Duchamp, was created. Creative synthesis. Cutting. Pasting. Assemblage. Work with appropriations. In this artist-book-dissertation some works of visual poetry are also presented. And an instrument of commitment whit the art. Notarized. / Mestre

Birth Cage is a trilingual and genre-bending approach to poetry. It is a postmodernist blend of visual and concrete poetry inspired by Deconstructivist architecture. Through different languages and voices, Birth Cage investigates the evolution of an individual. The transformation of a body, the search for home and the need to communicate are themes in the journey of a fragmented self towards unity. With a visual and linguistic emphasis on the idea of borders and access, various possible reading paths are related to the immigrant experience of a new culture. Language is treated as a cultural construct shaping the self as it defines the experience of space, on pages or in material space surrounding us. The idea of the self as architecture is a poetic reflection on living space, whether that is body, building or city. Architecture’s double-coding is present as a metaphor and followed in the visual formats which further question the graphic possibilities of words. The different languages and shifting visual elements allow a multifaceted reading experience that is a playful challenge for the reader. As a hybrid book, Birth Cage is a multidisciplinary approach to poetry and a blueprint for a cognitive architecture.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-03T11:52:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-04-26Bitstream added on 2015-03-03T12:07:24Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000810174.pdf: 3335900 bytes, checksum: 3f5a6040039cff2dfe74c36d3d2ad1f4 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Le but de notre recherche est d’étudier le discours pluricode de la poésie visuelle. Au début, nous considérons qu’il est important discuter sur la difficulté à classifier cette poésie dans le système de genre puisqu’elle occupe un lieu intermédiaire entre la Littérature et les Arts Visuels. Nous essayons de défendre la consolidation du genre particulier, car cela peut éviter la division sans fondement et inutile entre le vers et après le vers. Puis, nous faisons des recherches sur la possibilité de spatialisation du texte poétique et sur la manière de construir l´image poétique à travers de la retorique et de la materialité de l’ecriture. Nous défendons la différence semiotique entre le texte linguistique et le texte visuel, une différence qui résulte de la spécification du canal physique. L´art visuel a la particulité d’occuper l’espace à deux ou trois dimensions. La poésie est liée à la linéarité du canal oral qui se déploie dans un espace à une dimension. Mais quand la poésie est écrite, elle devient une image visuelle. Cela ne figure pas dans la théorie de Lessing, soucieuse d’établir parfaitement les frontières entre la peintre el la poésie. Par conséquent, la langue écrite mobilise simultanément les deux canaux : l’oral et le visuel. Les mots écrites ou inscrites comme des hiéroglyphes égyptiens peuvent entrer dans la composition plastique, tantôt comme des signes grafiques même, tantôt par rapport à des autres images, en formant une unité poetique complexe. Au final, nous cherchons à appliquer la suggestion de belge Jean-Marie Klinkenberg d’une grammaire de l’interaction texte-image, car nous pensons qu’elle est fondamental dans la poésie visuelle / Nossa pesquisa tem o objetivo de refletir sobre o texto pluricódigo da poesia visual. Partimos, como nos parece necessário, da discussão acerca das dificuldades de situar essa poesia entre os gêneros estabelecidos, uma vez que ocupa um lugar intermediário entre a Literatura e as Artes Visuais. E decidimos pela defesa do estabelecimento de um gênero particular, o que parece evitar a infundada e desnecessária cisão entre verso e pós-verso. Depois investigamos as possibilidades de espacialização do texto poético e as formas de construção da imagem pelos recursos retóricos e pela exploração da materialidade da escrita. Nosso pressuposto é que a diferença entre o texto linguístico e o texto visual repousa, sobretudo, numa diferença semiótica decorrente do canal físico. A arte visual se especifica porque ocupa o espaço de duas ou três dimensões; a poesia, porque está ligada à linearidade própria do canal oral, unidimensional. Mas na medida em que a poesia enquanto linguagem é escrita, ela toma inevitavelmente o canal visual. Isso parece ter escapado à teoria de Lessing, preocupada em estabelecer bem as fronteiras entre pintura e poesia. Portanto, a língua escrita opera dois canais simultaneamente: o oral e o visual. Escrita, ou inscrita à maneira dos hieróglifos egípcios, a palavra pode ser submetida a todo tipo de operação plástica, como obedecer a uma sintaxe visual e associar-se a outras imagens gráficas, gerando uma expressão poética complexa.Além disso, procuramos desenvolver, por sugestão do semioticista belga Jean-Marie Klinkenberg, uma espécie de gramática da relação palavra-imagem, que nos parece fundamental para a compreensão desse texto particular da poesia visual