Kus
1966
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The use of a typewriter and the graphic-geometric structure that defines some concrete poems are two elements that link concrete poetry to the constructivist and kinetic art that was extremely popular at the beginning of the Sixties. In the poems Mij Ook! En ik? (1966), Kus (1966), and Brigitte Floorflex (1966) for example, De Vree plays on this connection. By repeating words, which also usually form the poem’s title, without any spaces, De Vree fills a rectangular or square area. Because the letters in the different lines are the same but are not positioned directly underneath each other, the contrasting black and white creates a (light) fluctuation in these poems that is reminiscent of kinetic art.
