SLAGTER, Erik. Concrete Pozie.

(Zutphen, The Netherlands): N.V.  W.J. Thieme & Cie, 1971.  First edition.  Softcover.  19.2cm by 13.3cm.  36 pages.  Issued as volume five in the Modern Literature: Nederlands series. An early and scarce publication devoted to concrete poetry, in which Erik Slagter explores the visual and spatial possibilities of language. The poems privilege typographic arrangement, rhythm, and the physical presence of words on the page over conventional syntax or narrative, aligning the work with international developments in concrete and visual poetry of the postwar period. A very good copy in stapled wrappers.