Poetry. Literary History & Criticism. Primarily known for her important anthology of concrete poetry published in the late 1960s, Mary Ellen Solt also wrote a number of important critical essays on William Carlos Williams. Later in her career, Solt quietly developed an interest in semeiotics and wrote papers exploring the theories of Charles Sanders Peirce in close reading of Williams and of concrete poetry. Her scholarly essays as a whole makes an important connection between the early work of Objectivist poets like Oppen, Zukofsky, and Williams and the experimentation of Concretist poets around the world. Solt’s vast contribution to American…