#eugengomringer — Public Fediverse posts

We can’t share Eugen Gomringer’s “ping pong” without also sharing the artist book it inspired, a favorite in the Letterform Archive collection. Martha Sophie Burkhardt created this edition of 12 as a Book Art student under professor Sabine Golde at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, Germany, in 2018.

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Eugen Gomringer, constellations (“silencio,” “wind,” “o,” “ping pong,” and “avenidas”), 1952–3. As seen in Concrete Poetry: A World View, edited and with an introduction by Mary Ellen Solt, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1968.

From Solt’s introduction: “In 1951 Gomringer had tried to write a few poems of the kind he would later call ‘constellations’…

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