Watten identifies this as "an American version of zaum" (7)
"Language is broken down below the morphemic level to letters of the alphabet, bits of debris [...] a sound texture of qualitative absoluteness not threatened by 'meaning'" (53)
> from Barrett Watten's Total Syntax (1984)
> tagged with #language, #poetry, #investigate, #meaning
> created December 2, 2024 at 11:07:55 AM
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