Kurt Elling is an American jazz musician whose recordings are available through the Blue Note record label.
In ‘The Uncertainty of the Poet’ Kurt Elling multitracks himself performing a setting of the witty anagrammatic poem by Wendy Cope.
The poem was inspired by the painting ‘The Uncertainty of the Poet’ by Giorgio de Chirco and can be seen in the Tate Gallery.
THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE POET
by Wendy Cope
I am a poet,
I am very fond of bananas.
I am bananas,
I am very fond of a poet.
I am a poet of bananas.
I am very fond.
A fond poet of 'I am, I am' -
Very bananas.
Fond of Am I bananas?
Am I? - a very poet.
Bananas of a poet!
Am I fond? Am I very?
Poet bananas! I am
I am fond of a 'very'.
I am of very fond bananas.
Am I a poet?
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