Time mechanics: The modern Geoffrey Chaucer and the medieval Jack Spicer

Differing intimacies

“…Although asserting that the movement 'struck me as dumb, literally and figuratively. Or too often clever and curious, risking cute', 81 Meyer admits that Concrete Poetry also inspired him to experiment with visual effects, particularly with his Beowulf: 'It's true I was fascinated by page layout, the page as a unit, line, line break, stanza, stanza length, essentially the drifting right hand margin, along with the recto/verso juxtaposition. Hence my translation of Beowulf.'…”