Anne Tardos, five from 'Uxudo'

Uxudo is Anne Tardos’s interlingualist book of 1999 (Tuumba Books/O Books). At an “After-Englishes” event in Manoa, Hawaii, that same year, Tardos gave an introduction to the Uxudo project. She then read passages from the book. Here is a sampling of five poems/sections:


“She Put It Mildly,” p. 55 [audio segment here; audio recording starts at 00:00 here]. Click on the image above for a larger view of the text.


“All sins of all cats rolled into one,” p. 19 [audio segment here; this portion of complete reading starts at 01:20 here]. Click on the image above for a larger view of the text.


“Houghgeduld after nine from a fountain,” p. 31 [audio segment here; this portion of the complete recording starts at 05:30 here]. Click on the image above for a larger view of the text.


“Lorraine hug-a-bee hiaba,” p. 43 [audio segment here; this portion of the complete audio recording starts at 07:56 here]. Click on the image above for a larger view of the text. 


“Szep anyag didn’t run Summerdrum,” p. 53 [audio segment here; this portion of the complete recording starts at 08:40 here]. Click on the image above for a larger view of the text.

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