Mary Ellen Solt
Mary Ellen Solt, née Bottom (July 8, 1920 in
Lilac", and "Geranium
". They were collected in Flowers in Concrete (1966).
In 1968 Solt edited the groundbreaking and historically significant anthology Concrete Poetry: A World View, which the
Solt is the subject of issue #51 of the Swedish journal OEI. The issue is entitled, "Mary Ellen Solt – Toward a theory of concrete poetry."[3]
She married Leo Frank Solt, who was a historian, with books on old and early modern English history and
Puritanism. They both taught at Indiana University
and she was also director of the Polish Studies Center.
Solt's personal papers are held by the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.[4]
Selected publications
- Editor
- "Concrete Poetry: A World View," Indiana University Press, 1970
- Poetry
- Flowers in Concrete, Design Program, Fine Arts Dept., Indiana University, 1966
References
- ^ Fox, Margalit (July 3, 2007). "Mary Ellen Solt, Poet of Words and Shapes, Dead at 86". New York Times.
- ^ "OEI #51 press release" (PDF). OEI. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ^ "OEI". OEI. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ^ "Solt mss. II, 1912-2021 - Archives Online at Indiana University". archives.iu.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
External links
- Poems at UbuWeb
- Concrete Poetry: A World View at UbuWeb