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Klara du Plessis on Visuality and Aurality in Poetry

Klara du Plessis covers Chambersonic by Oana Avasilichioaei alongside Margaret Christakos and Jay Ritchie in an essay about visuality and aurality in poetry that appears in the current issue of Arc Poetry Magazine (106).

From the essay: “Chambersonic extends what is presumed possible on the page … Chambersonic publishes six QR codes alongside some of its sections—these lead to recordings of interrelated sound compositions that add over an hour’s worth of listening to the reading experience. The sound pieces don’t necessarily reproduce the printed text as a give-and-take between word and voice, but rather complement, interpret, dilate, and/or compress versions compiled on the page.”

To read the complete essay, pick up a copy here.