popcrete means A genre of concrete poems assembled from images rather than words. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 73 out of 100.
Why “popcrete” is a great word
POPCRETE — [Noun] A genre of concrete poetry that uses assembled images from popular culture as its primary compositional material. Its name is a blend of 'pop art' (an art movement using imagery from popular culture) and 'concrete' (referring to concrete poetry, where the visual arrangement is integral to the work), coined by the poet Augusto de Campos. Unlike concrete poetry, which foregrounds the architecture of letters on a page, or collage, a general technique of assembly across all arts, popcrete is a deliberate literary raid on the image-bank of the everyday. It is a Campbell’s soup can spliced into a stanza, a comic-book panel reconfigured as a syntactic puzzle, or a brand logo shattered into a new glyph—turning the ephemeral debris of mass culture into a permanent, questioning artifact.
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- A genre of concrete poems assembled from images rather than words.