A Sonogrammar
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A Sonogrammar
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 text as meaningful, first and foremost, at the level of sound. The collection de-forms and re-articulates the sound of writing to learn what Stein still teaches about the interdependence of intonation, punctuation, and grammar in the creation of rhythm.
Because rhythm interlaces a writer with a locality materially, at the level of wave and vibration, A Sonogrammar is also a testament to the way poetry can work (as light and colour work) to construct a timespace. It is an ode to Stein's capacity to undiscipline sentences, building syntactic room inside them for divergence and differentiation.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781923099432
Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 November 2024
Country: Australia
Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 111.0mm
Height: 178.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 100
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About the Author
Kay L. Are is an Australian multimodal writer and artist, raised as a settler on Dharug land in the Blue Mountains and now living on Wurundjeri land in exurban Narrm. She has taught Creative Writing and Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Melbourne, where she now researches and advises on feminist, relational and art-based education. Her poems, chapbooks and visual work have appeared in print, online and exhibition spaces including Cordite Poetry Review, Southerly, Island, Meanjin, HEAT, ctrl+v, Stilts, Meniscus, Double Dialogues, Telephone, Lab14 and various book collections, but A Sonogrammar is her first full-length collection. It was Highly Commended in the Puncher and Wattman First Book of Poetry Prize (2020).
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