SOLT, Mary Ellen

Solt was, for a moment in the mid-1960s, the most impressive Visual Poet in America, the author of a portfolio of prints, Flowers in Concrete (1966), whose images were widely reproduced at the time. Ostensibly poems about flowers, realized in collaboration with professional designers, they used large typeset letters and incorporated various visual devices to enhance their subjects, such as circles of letters within circles of letters for Zinnia and both letters for the flowers and Morse code symbols...