verbalizzazione astratta di signora

Click on title to hear poem... performed by Luigi Pennone, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Sergio Cena/Recorded February 1976 in Torino from the LP Futura Poesia Sonora (Cramps Records, Milan)

From UBU...
In his "Verbalizzazioni Astratte" ("Abstract verbalizations"), Fortunato Depero developed the onomatopoeic invention to the point of paroxysm and, in a certain sense, left it behind. For Depero the poet, onomatopoeia is a problem of language, the language of natural forces developed to the maximum of sonic intensity. Depero does not describe the object or the sensation or the state of mind, he makes them act sonically... sex whimpers its timidity stammeringly in "Verbtilizzazione astratta di signora" ("Abstract verbalization of a lady")...