[New-Poetry] Mary Ellen Solt, 86; poet, poetry critic

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OBITUARIES
Mary Ellen Solt, 86; poet, poetry critic


By Mary Rourke, Times Staff Writer


Mary Ellen Solt, a poet and poetry critic who often arranged words on the page in a visual graphic, resulting in such works as "Forsythia," a poem that looks like a flowering shrub, has died. She was 86.

Solt died June 21 at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Santa Clarita after suffering a stroke, her daughter Susan said. 

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She was a leader in the concrete poetry movement that emerged in the 1960s. It held that the visual effect of letters, words and phrases on a page is an important element in poetry. 

A poem is "an object in its own right for its own sake" that "communicates first and foremost its structure," Solt wrote in her book "Concrete Poetry: A World View," published in 1968.


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