Portfolio: Spatial Poetry
from the introduction by Timothy Cohrs:
SPATIAL POETRY is a term I have coined to describe my attempts at wedding time-bound, two-dimensional poetry to a more plastic involvement with space. Its roots lie in my own fascination with the poetics of the late Charles Olson, and with the emphasis on presentation in Beat Poetry. SPATIAL POETRY also shares many ideas with the Happenings movement of the early ’60s, for in both the audience per se is abolished, and replaced instead by a group of willing or unwilling accomplices. . . .