Modern Visual Poetry and Ecology: Towards Establishing “Eco-Visual Poetry” As A New Poetic Genre

Abstract

In no other age in the history of literature did poetry witness this great change as much as it does in ours. Poetry moves indiscriminately towards visuality, fragmentation, and digitalization. This change has led to the appearance of modern visual poetry as an individual poetic production with specific characteristics and techniques after years of being a mere experimental poetic activity. Modern visual poetry is the mirror of the contemporary society which has declared the death of postmodernism and the appearance of new era of fragmentation, chaos, hyper-reality and techno culture. The new era is always concerned with ecology as one of the most important issues. That is why, the present paper aims at presenting a new subclass of visual poetry that is eco-visual poetry. The paper discusses eco-visual poetry as a new born genre of poetry that is associated with visuality, ecology, and literature. Thus, it defines eco-visual poetry as a new genre of poetry