Kay L. Are

A Sonogrammar is a mythic technology and the name for the object it makes. It is both a method of listening for the auditory system in a work, and it is the figuration of findings: rhythmic pattern, correspondence, dissonance. The poems in this collection conduct a systematic sonogrammar on Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons (1914), reading this exquisite and perplexing modernist...