sound poetry

noun

An artistic form bridging literacy and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values.

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Meanings

nounsound poetry (usually uncountable, plural sound poetries)

plural sound poetries

  1. uncountableusuallyAn artistic form bridging literacy and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values.
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