“acrobats” by ian hamilton finlay (1964)
“isolated, single letters are pattern but letters joined in words (as these are) are direction. those in the »acrobats« poem are both, behaving like the real circus acrobats who are now individual units, now-springing together-diagonals and towers. properly, the poem should be constructed of cut-out letters, to occupy not a page but an entire wall above a children’s playground.” (I.H.F.)
(from the anthology of concrete poetry, edited by emmett williams)
