Cultural Sources of Verse: A Poem by Eugen Gomringer

• Authors: Aleksandra Kremer

Title variants

PL

Kulturowe korzenie poezji. O jednym wierszu Eugena Gomringera

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Eugen Gomringer’s poetry of the 1950s and ‘60s was strongly rooted in such elements of contemporaneous culture as Swiss concrete painting, the Swiss style of typography, the functional design of the Bauhaus tradition, and the Stuttgart-based modern theories of aesthetics. Some of these practices were the basis on which Gomringer constructed his own poetic means, while others were directly implemented in the layout or cover designs of Gomringer’s poetic books. In this paper the sources of Gomringer’s verse are examined with special reference to the book 33 konstellationen and the mathematical verse construction of one poem, “worte sind schatten,” whose structure proves to be paradoxical, simultaneously complicated yet simple.

Keywords

EN

concrete poetry; concrete painting; Gomringer; Bill; constellation

PL

Gomringer; poezja konkretna; malarstwo konkretne; Bill; konstelacja

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 3(6) cz.1
• Pages: 125-139

Dates

published

2019-10-01

Contributors

author

Aleksandra Kremer

• Uniwersytet Warszawski