Close listening: poetry and the performed word

✍ Scribed by Bernstein, Charles;

• Publisher: Oxford University Press USA - OSO
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Close Listening and the Performed Word brings together seventeen essays, especially written for this volume, on the poetry reading, the sound of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry. While the performance of poetry is as old as poetry itself, critical attention to modern and postmodern poetry performance has been surprisingly slight. From the performance styles of individual poets and types of poetry to the relation of sound to meaning, from historical and social approaches to poetry readings to new imaginations of prosody, the entries gathered here investigate a compelling range of topics for anyone interested in poetry.;Taken together, these essays encourage new forms of "close listenings"--Not only to the printed text of poems but also to tapes, performances, and other expressions of the sounded and visualized word.;Letter on sound / Susan Stewart -- The aural ellipsis and the nature of listening in contemporary poetry / Nick Piombino -- Praxis : a political economy of noise and information / Bruce Andrews -- After free verse : the new nonlinear poetries / Marjorie Perloff -- Ether either / Susan Howe -- Visual performance of the poetic text / Johanna Drucker -- Voice in extremis / Steve McCaffery -- Toward a poetics of polyphony and translatability / Dennis Tedlock -- Speech effects : the talk as a genre / Bob Perelman -- Sound reading / Peter Quartermain -- Understanding the sound of not understanding / Jed Rasula -- The contemporary poetry reading / Peter Middleton -- Neon griot : the functional role of poetry readings in the Black arts movement / Lorenzo Thomas -- Was that "different," "dissident" or "dissonant"? Poetry (n) the public spear : slams, open readings, and dissident traditions / Maria Damon -- Local vocals : Hawaiʻi's pidgin literature, performance, and postcoloniality / Susan M. Schultz -- Who speaks : ventriloquism and the self in the poetry reading / Ron Silliman.