This is my preferred term for minimal, customarily nonsyntactical language that is visually enhanced to a significant degree. It differs from
Pattern Poetry
, where the ends of conventionally syntactical lines define a perceptible shape; from Concrete Poetry, which at its purest identifies a materialist attitude toward language, wholly apart from syntax and semantics; and from whatever it was that
William Blake
did (consider, word + image). Thus, the term
visual...
