A poet, essayist, translator, publisher, and scholar, Mary Ellen Solt’s career is tied to the practice of concrete poetry, born in the 1950s. In concrete poetry, images are made of letters, typographical elements, and punctuation. Forsythia, Lilac, and Geranium are examples of this kind of poems, where form and substance coincide and show a kind of literary sense that is at once rigorous and inspired, capable of assuring, for this form of art, the scholarly legitimization that is essential for its future fortune.
