Augusto de Campos

Linguaviagem, 1967

Poemcube by Augusto de Campos

250 x 255 mm folded. 

Unfolds to cube shape (250 mm square, 255mm high) with three letters screenprinted on each side - the outer sides in blue, the inner sides in green. The three letter groupings are LIN / GUA/ VIA / GEM. Therefore the letter groups combine (as is printed on one page) to make Lingua : Tongue / Via: Via/ Linguagem: Language and viagem : voyage. One of de Campos' most successful and famous poems and a beautiful poetry object/sculpture. Printed in an edition of 100 for the Brighton Concrete Poetry Festival,1967.