Augusto de Campos
Pentahexagram for John Cage, 1977
So, this dude, Augusto de Campos did a poem called "pentahexagram for John Cage" that is mostly a picture for my boy, known to me as JC. It is above. I'll give you a quick rundown of the background info you need to know, Brazilian poet dude, was probably some Brazilian Gypsy hippy, and it is apparently hip to draw a picture and call it a poem in the post modernist era. The blog seems stalled (or in awe of) the earlier post on moon shoes, which I have not been able to stop thinking about even thought here is no way I could pull them off (maybe some AF1-Jordan crossovers may work), and when that shit happens, I will try to go deep and provocative. Or maybe deep and erotic? or realistically, not so deep, not so provocative, nor so erotic.
Opinion Time: Is this a poem? Not arguing the fact that if the artist call it a poem, then yeah it is technically a poem (cause I write "songs" all the time, although many people, including ones that love me don't think it is a "song"). But, is it really a poem? f I write a song, can I call it a painting even though I use no paint? I can't get a buzz if there is tea in my pipe.
now the following shit is stuff I stole about this subject off of google books-
