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The Origin of the Term "Dirty Concrete"

1968 letter from Nicholas Zurbrugg to bpNichol

March 12, 2011 - March 12, 2011

Curator: lori.emerson

I've been working on an article for Open Letter on Steve McCaffery's "Carnival" which has been described by many critics (Marjorie Perloff among them) as an example of "dirty concrete." Yet nowhere have I been able to find who first came up with this term.