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Listen! there is only sound poetry

Sound poetry is a form of literary or musical composition in which the phonetic aspects of human speech take precedence over more conventional semantic and syntactic values; Verse without words, Tension. Tingle. Resonance. By definition, sound poetry is intended primarily for performance.

 

Some feel that the roots of sound poetry may be found in oral tradition, the writing of pure sound texts that downplay the roles of meaning and structure is a 20th century phenomenon. Early examples include F. T. Marinetti's "Zang Tumb Tumb" (1914) and a piece performed by Hugo Ball in a reading at Cabaret Voltaire in 1915.

Later prominent sound poets include Henri Chopin, Kurt Schwitters

and Marty Esworthy. Yeah. We're talking tone, performance, abstract poems--

patterns of sound. Good vibrations. Aural excitations!

Do you want to know a secret? That's all there is.

 

There is only sound poetry. Listen.

 

 

 

Pop Box: Sound Poetry: poesia sonora

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