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IJLLL 2026 Vol.12(2): 128-133
DOI: 10.18178/IJLLL.2026.12.2.644

Writing the Modern City: Visual Poetry as Urban Cartography

Ting Huang
Department of European Languages, School of International Studies, Communication University of China, Beijing, China
Email: tinghuangdora@hotmail.com

Manuscript received November 28, 2025; accepted February 28, 2026; published May 20, 2026

Abstract—This article explores how modern visual poets translate the sensory and spatial complexity of the city into poetic form through innovative layout, typography, and language. Focusing on three case studies from different cultural contexts – Vasily Kamensky’s Russian Futurist ferro-concrete city poems, Augusto de Campos’s multilingual concrete poem “cidade/city/cite”, and Kyōjirō Hagiwara (萩原恭次郎)’s Japanese visual poem “View of the Early Summer Street from the Veranda” (“露臺より初夏街上を見る”)—the study shows how each work functions as a visual and semantic map of the modern city. Through comparative close readings grounded in global modernist poetics, spatial semiotics, and translingual aesthetics, the article argues that these poems operate as metapictures—self-referential verbal-visual artifacts that collapse the boundaries between reading and navigating. In doing so, they exemplify a spatial poetics that renders the poem as a cartographic space of modern urban experience.
 
Keywords—visual poetry, urban cartography, modernism, spatial poetics

Cite: Ting Huang, "A Comparative Study on Translation Strategy Orientations of Story of Your Life Based on Affect Intensity," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 128-133, 2026.

Copyright © 2026 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).


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