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This piece is a sampler of what I view to be another possibility of language in literature. Concrete/visual poetry in video/film form gets closer to how fascination with alphabet can be conveyed. The restless fragments of language waiting to form into meaning. The pre sentence, the present tense of looking.


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Nico Vassilakis works in both visual and textual writing. He lives in Seattle. Some reviews of his 'CONCRETE:Movies' can be found here:
http://scorecard.typepad.com/crag_hills_poetry_score/2005/04/nico_vassilakis_1.html
http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2005/06/movies-made-out-of-concrete.html
http://dirt-zine.blogspot.com/2006/10/review-nico-vassilakis-concrete-movies.html
http://galatearesurrection.blogspot.com/2006/03/concrete-movies-by-nico-vassilakis.html

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