Canadian poet Christian Bok may be the only poet who has performed the entirety of Dadaist poet Kurt Schwitters’s “Ursonate” (also known as the “Sonate in Urlauten”) by heart. This is particularly challenging because “Ursonate” is a “sound poem” made up only of nonsense sounds. To read the poem, click here.To listen, click here.
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