F.M. - Visual Poetry Book

from Gregorio Fonten

Published by Veer Books (2014)
78 Pages, 21 x 30 cm, Paperback

"Gregorio Fontén’s book is an intense visual experience, making and unmaking patterns that enter the act of reading and alter our perception. It takes us into reading as a multiple action, involving much more than recognizing the bare meaning of words and extracting it from the book. Instead, the book itself is alive with sound like a piano to be played, with moving shapes that the words pass through. It takes us towards a total experience of the word." William Rowe

"Our best evidence about primitive song suggests that melodies and
rhythms precede words, that the first step toward poetry was the fitting of
words to pre-existent musical patterns (Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry
and Poetics). In the beginning was the sound and each page of this visual
poetry book is a shiny and unique score. Sound is inseparable from poetry
as all poetry is born to be spoken, hopefully aloud. Visual poetry as well,
even if intended silent. That is why it is inseparable from sound poetry that
usually sonifies visual poems in front of an audience. In F.M. sound is
visualised for a reader by way of coding real or imaginary sounds, printing
abstract geometrical patterns over the page. These may be grasped as
proto-scriptural figures that, as reading advances, mutate and blend to
form words, giving F.M. the shape of a metaphor on the origin of language." Martin Gubbins

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Gregorio Fonten Valparaíso, Chile

Sonic Poetry.

His songs has been described as one of ramshackle and unique songs, whose effect is hallucinatory, corrosive; both strange and beautiful.
The chilean press has labeled Fonten as the godson of the legendary inca rock band Los Jaivas.
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