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The Collected Poems of Mary Ellen SoltMary Ellen Solt This volume brings together a half centurys worth of work by the renowned American concrete poet Mary Ellen Solt. One of the few Americans, and rare women, in the concrete poetry movement, Solt edited the influential anthology Concrete Poetry: A World View (1968), which brought her to the forefront of that movement not only as a poet but as an acclaimed critic. While Solt was justly celebrated for her suite of visual poems Flowers in

yoking abecedarian and Fibonacci sequences

Gansel opens this meditative volume of prose poems with an epigraph from Gaston Bachelard: 'against all odds

recognizing that drawing can be a form of writing

suggesting that the crux of poetry is the art of not quite touching

It remains for the reader to judge this redemptive outcome

Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize

urban environs of East London

Addressing a beloved in whose name it is also inscribed

plan falls flat as a ‘paper box

but soon gave up his scientific pursuits for the arts

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their desire for self-determination