Sound Writing

Considers the avant-garde rethinking of poetic language in terms of physical speech production.   Avant-garde writers and artists of the twentieth century radically reconceived poetic language, appropriating scientific theories and techniques as they turned their attention to the physical process of spoken language. This modernist “sound writing” focused on the bodily production of speech, which it rendered in poetic, legible, graphic form.   Modernist sound writing aims to capture the