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Term for a poem with strange use of spacing?

I recently read
will you teach a wretch to live ...
by e.e. cummings (http://www.famous-poems.biz/e_e_cummings...
If I wanted to do a websearch for this kind (or, style?) of poetry, what would I call it? Also, poets or poems in this style, especially in with stream of consciousness that you could recommend would be highly appreciated.
Thanks!

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5 months ago
While shahbarak provided an excellent description of blank verse, that's not quite what I mean. Please take a moment to look at the poem I'm talking about. I'm talking about poems that
could very well
be spaced
like
this.
Abnormal spacing. I'm not saying that what shahbarak said is even slightly incorrect, but I was hoping for a term for abnormal spacing. Maybe there isn't one. If so, then I applaud him on getting as close as possible. Anyone know a specific term?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

I think the expression you are looking for is concrete poetry.
For a detailed discussion see this wikipedia article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/concrete_po...

some other poets worthy of consideration (may include adult concepts)

Guillaume Apollinaire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/guillaume_a...
http://www.artofeurope.com/apollinaire/a...

Andre Breton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/andre_breto...
http://www.geocities.com/lmc2124/breton....


Lawrence Ferlinghetti

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ferlinghett...
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/don-t-let...
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/8...

Allen Ginsberg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/allen_ginsb...
http://members.tripod.com/~sprayberry/po...