Pattern Poetry

Dick Higgins is an artist, poet, and Research Associate of the School of the Arts at the State University of New York at Purchase. He has been studying pattern poetry since 1968, when he was publisher and designer of Emmett Williams' Anthology of Concrete Poetry, which introduced that type of modern visual poetry to North America. He keeps his studio and library in a former church at Barrytown, New York, in the Hudson River Valley.

• FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CHAPTER ONE A Short History of Pattern Poetry CHAPTER TWO Pattern Poems by Language and Literature GreekLatinHebrewHungarianItalianFrenchGermanScandinavianDutch and FlemishBritish and English-language LiteraturesHispanicSlavic: PolishSlavic (continued)Other European Languages and LiteraturesCHAPTER THREE Analogues of Pattern Poetry from Outside the European Languages and Literatures The Far EastThe Citrakavyas and Other Analogues in IndiaIslamic LiteraturesLanguages and Literatures in which no Pattern Poems have been Reported or Published CHAPTER FOUR Analogues of Pattern Poems Acrostics, Telestics, and MesosticsLapidary InscriptionsLeonine VerseMagical Inscriptions and FormulaeMathematical Arrays and PoemsMusical Analogues of Pattern PoetryProteus PoemsRebuses and Other Puzzle PoemsShaped ProseSound Poetry CHAPTER FIVE The Life and Death of Forms LabyrinthsManuscriptsHypotheses Towards a TheoryAPPENDIX I Chinese Patterned TextsBy Dr. Herbert FrankeAPPENDIX II Sanskrit Citrakavyas and the Western Pattern PoemsBy Dr. Kalanath Jha APPENDIX III A Glossary of Terms BIBLIOGRAPHY ArticlesBooksDissertationsSupplemetary BibliographyINDEX