Experimental poetry is an avant-garde genre that blurs the lines between spoken word, sound art, and music, often incorporating unconventional techniques to challenge traditional narratives and auditory experiences. Influenced by Dadaism, Fluxus, and Beat poetry, it features a range of expression from guttural vocalizations and phonetic gymnastics to electronic manipulation and intertextual performance. Artists like Charles Amirkhanian and Jaap Blonk use innovative vocal techniques and sound processing, while writers such as Anne Waldman and Kathy Acker inject radical themes and layered textualities. This genre defies norms, inviting listeners into a multi-sensory realm where meaning is both deconstructed and reconstructed.

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