A Concrete Poet

NY Trip — Whitney Biennial.

“N.H. Pritchard is known primarily as a concrete poet who arranged words spatially across the page. The biennial exhibits for the first time works that combine his innovative poetry with his dynamic, colorful drawings, including his monumental twenty-two-page visual art text _Mundus: A Novel_ (1970). Pritchard was a member of Umbra, a collective of Black writers active within the Lower East Side experimental poetry scene who merged poetics and activism…”

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