A Sonogrammar

<p>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.</p><p>The poems in this collection conduct a systematic sonogrammar on Gertrude Stein's <em>Tender Buttons</em> (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 interdepending work of intonation punctuation and grammar in the creation of rhythm.</p><p>Because rhythm interlaces a writer with a locality - materially at the level of wave and vibration - A Sonogrammar is also 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.</p>