More questions than emotion..

Having been exposed to the expression of sound poetry for the first time during class evoked more questions for me than emotions. Because it was something new to me, it was interesting to learn there existed a form of expression that seemingly blends the use of vocal patterns and sounds in the aim to do what traditional poetry did - that is poetry that involved language. Admittedly, there isn't much I know about poetry to begin with, but the tangent of sound poetry abandoning all sense of established language, at least from the material displayed below, was something that led me to many questions. Things like what the thought process behind this exploration of poetic sound was, or what is the specific meaning or intent that is carried in the string of phrases and vocals. Perhaps they are not all that different from my perception of what language poetry is or does? Maybe I will find more answers to more exposure, to learn more about what at the surface appears to be gibberish with rhythm.

The use of visual poetry was also something new to me, but seemed to be something I was more drawn to. Visual poetry such as Stéphane Mallarmé's "One Toss of the Dice Will Never Abandon Chance" seem to take advantage of word placement on the surface, incorporating a sense of artificial timing and rhythm completely dependent at how the eye will read, an interesting factor to consider in this type of poetry.