GOMRINGER, Eugen
(*1925)
GOMRINGER, Eugen (20 January 1925). A Swiss-German born in Bolivia, Gomringer pioneered the idea of Concrete Poetry, publishing early examples and writing the most visible early manifesto. His key idea was the “constellation,” or words in standard typography connected by qualities apart from syntax, freely distributed within the space of the printed page. Given his polyglot background, Gomringer was able to write his poems in Spanish, French, English, and German. For instance, down a single…