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Listening to Gertrude Stein’s words, uncovering rhythm and place.

A Sonogrammar

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  • Paperback

    100 pages

  • Release Date

    1 November 2024

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Summary

Shortlisted, NSW Literary Awards 2026, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry

A sonogrammar is a mythic technology and the name for the object it makes. It is both method of listening for 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 mean…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781923099432
ISBN-10:1923099434
Author:Kay L. Are
Publisher:Puncher and Wattmann
Imprint:Puncher and Wattmann
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:100
Release Date:1 November 2024
Weight:194g
Dimensions:12mm x 149mm x 210mm
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About The Author

Kay L. Are

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, and Lab14, as well as various book collections. 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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