Great Regulars: Shiviti are what contemporary critics

would call an early example of concrete poetry, that is, poetry where meaning is conveyed not only through words, but also through the arrangement of the poem on the page.

While acknowledging the modernist concrete poetry of e.e. cummings and Guillaume Apollinaire, the four poems by Hank Lazer featured below appear to have a lot in common with Shiviti. They too are mediations, opening doors into the realm of ritualistic, perhaps even liturgical moments.

from Forward: The Arty Semite: Concrete Poetry or Shiviti? Four Works by Hank Lazer

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