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Altagor


1. from "Discours Absolu" (1947-60) (3:38)


From the LP Futura Poesia Sonora (Cramps Records, Milan)

At the margins of the lettriste movement, Altagor (pseudonym of Jean Vernier) formerly a mechanic and miner, now writer of thrillers, created "Métapoésie poetry composed of invented words, therefore abstract. The text "Discours Absolu" lasts about six hours and was composed between 1947 and 1960. We present a fragment in which it is possible to note the singular mixture of cadences and consonances, even Greek and Celtic, the highly rhetorical diction.





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