Title of the album: The Poet’s Tongue
Title: Poema (Track 04)
Publisher: Guy Schraenen éditeur, Antwerpen
Date: 1977
Medium: audio cassette
Performers: U. Carrión , Martha Hawley
The album, The Poet's Tongue is the first album by the Mexican artist. In it, he interprets, reflects and analyses the forms of language, poetry, stories and games. In Poema, he takes on a meta-level and describes the poem and its composition purely formally but with identical stylistic means and forms of expression. He imitates the form of a poem by speaking it but completely replaces the content with the descriptions "title", "word", "text", "stanza" and so on. He thus frees the form from its task of conveying content and serving as a medium of mediation.
Carrión described the theoretical basis for this work in his dissertation on William Shakespeare, which he wrote at the University of Leeds in the early 1970s.
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