"The first comprehensive survey of the international movement of concrete poetry. The editor has selected over one hundred thirty concrete poems and texts, some of them in color, giving the reader a widely representative selection of the work being done by concrete poets throughout the world. A section of manifestos on concrete poetry by Eugen Gomringer, the Noigandres Group, Öyvind Fahlström, Max Bense, Pierre Garnier, Henri Chopin, Paul de Vree, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Jonathan Williams makes the volume an indispensable source book for the international movement of concrete poetry." -- publisher's statement. Edited and with an introduction by Mary Ellen Solt. Includes a tipped-in fold-out by Augusto de Campos.