Other Examples of Sound Poets
Later prominent sound poets include Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Ada Verdun Howell, Allen Ginsberg, bpNichol, William S. Burroughs, Giovanni Fontana, Bernard Heidsieck, Enzo Minarelli, Mathias Goeritz, Andras Petocz, and Jaap Blonk, a Dutch sound poet who often works with improvising musicians.
The poet Edith Sitwell coined the term Abstract poetry to describe some of her own poems which possessed more aural than literary qualities, rendering them essentially meaningless: "The poems in Façade are abstract poems--that is, they are patterns of sound. They are...virtuoso exercises in technique of extreme difficulty, in the same sense as that in which certain studies by Liszt are studies in transcendental technique in music." (Sitwell, 1949)
An early Dutch artist, Theo VanDoesburg, was another prominent sound poet in the early 1900s.
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