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Close listening : poetry and the performed word

Contains 17 original essays, commissioned for this volume, on the reading of poetry, the sound of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry. Opens new avenues for the critical discussion of the sound and performance of poetry, and offers a critical base for understanding language and its performance
eBook, English, 1998
Oxford University Press, New York, 1998
Electronic books
1 online resource (x, 390 pages) : illustrations
9781423759546, 9781602561557, 9780195109917, 9780195109924, 9781280453250, 9786610453252, 9780199855261, 9780195355079, 1423759540, 1602561559, 0195109910, 0195109929, 1280453257, 661045325X, 0199855269, 0195355075
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Print version:
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
English