In this, the only full-length study of the visual poetry of the early twentieth century, Willard Bohn expertly illuminates the works of Apollinaire, Josep-Maria Junow, Guillermo de Torre, and others. His fascinating aesthetic insights bring to life this elusive and often misunderstood genre.

CONTENTS:

Acknowledgments
1. Music of the spheres
2. The Futurist experience
3. Apollinaire’s plastic imagination
4. Toward a calligrammar
5. Josep-Maria Junoy
6. Modes of visual analogy in Catalonia
7. Joan Salvat-Papasseit
8. The advent of Ultra
9. Guillermo de Torre
10. Marius de Zayas and abstraction
Notes
Bibliography
Index