KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ferguson's Dictionary for Concrete Poets: The Four-Letter Words
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Event Type
Spoken WordOrigin
KPFAIdentifier
AM.1971.03.03Program Length
27 minDates
1971-03-03 | broadcast| 1970-12-10 | created
Description
Internationally prominent Canadian intermedia artist Gerald Ferguson has compiled by computer a dictionary for poets who utilize words as material for composing visual (concrete) poetry. Here is his reading, recorded in Halifax, Nova Scotia, of “The Four-Letter Words” of his dictionary which lists all words from the “Standard Corpus of Present Day American English Language Usage” in order by the number of letters in each word. (There are also sections titled The Three-Letter, Five-Letter, etc...)Genres
PoetrySubjects
PoetryConcrete poetry
Visual poetry
Related places
Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada) (was recorded at)Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)