ORD&BILD

Teddy Hultberg
om Öyvind Fahlström,
Bengt Emil Johnson
och Åke Hodell

Fredrik Hertzberg

:

Finlandssvenska pionjärer

inom den visuella poesin

■

glada vappen!

InterNaPwoWriMo now comes to an end.

The activity has been great fun & full of energy,

my thanks, tack, dank, kiittos to all the

global pwoermdists for the April days.

Enkelorddikt will now slow down,

occasionally posting pwoermds when & if
one should write itself in my head,

otherwise, i will use this space to post
on Swedish related topics that i find interesting.

njuta av sådana ord

neja

tygp

svtḁra

mndr

fakfalsktiskt

tangentbörd

taⁿktkänsla

tänkdande

tänjka

bäd{in}dad

t.ext.

skönhetssjäl

förvarandlra

:

pwoermd dedicated to

Rönnog Seaberg

:

"P for people/P for proletariat/P for puberty and/pubic hair"

:

själssjöng

∞

sk:!j't,ckn.t

varlinje

gjordt

ordt

anblixckt

telämnat

påtaggligtiga

ämsam

pr˙ck

vävavävaväva

aabefiklst

yttryttring

saxt

oordbok

påankomm,t

lärdomna

svirtvat

skrivteglen

skjutvapenna

yhdysyhdyssana

begåvagåtagåva

prät

skeendilb

Geof Huth :: "The Art of Pwoermds"

Minimalist poets work with a tiny number of words in each poem, trying to wrest some eternal insight out of the smallest of spaces. The tendency towards minimalism, which was a hallmark of much of twentieth-century art, seems empty to many people, who see minimalism as an anti-art trick. But minimalism is serious play, making it among the purest of the arts.

The height of minimalism in literature is the pwoermd, a one-word poem that has no title save for itself. The pwoermd must make its effects in the smallest of spaces; the very smallest being the four letters of Aram Saroyan's "Blod." Because of the huge limitations on the creators of pwoermds, these poems are one of the most challenging forms to create successfully. Somehow, the pwoermd must capture our intellectual imagination in the space of a few letters. For this reason, many of the best pwoermds focus on language itself and its illuminating shortcomings. Pwoermds tend to come in many styles, though, just as the creators of pwoermds might be visual poets or haiku poets or language poets.

And "pwoermd" itself? Where does it come from? I created it in 1987 by folding the word "poem" into the word "word." "Pwoermd" is a tiny mouthful to pronounce, but that is not a problem, since it is not a word meant for the air. It is meant for the page, and I see it as a little visual pwoermd itself: the "pw" at the front mirroring the "md" at the end, and in the middle there appears that old poetic "o'er."

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msaö

glosaögd

 



laxatɪv
       ˙

kökökö

genljljudjup

sp¨ke

synvllla

vetgirigror

ljljus

bokstatjuvv

ögaö

 skuggskugga
skuggskugga

svadadada

de/ning

ympmp

kurmagömra

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maximal minimal

&

newwords

ljoud!

hvuvd

inandningin

errfara

sÿn

as usual, a day late & a dollar short:

i'm starting this blog up for

NaPwoWriMo

(National Pwoermd Writing Month)

inspired by Geof Huth's blog

( i decided to try Swedish pwoermds

& see where it may lead )

see also:

InterNaPwoWriMo

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