The sound of poetry, the poetry of sound
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The sound of poetry, the poetry of sound
University of Chicago Press, 2009
- : pbk
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Includes index
Contents of Works
- Prelude : poetry and orality? / Jacques Roubaud ; translated by Jean-Jacques Poucel
- Rhyme and freedom / Susan Stewart
- In the beginning was translation / Leevi Lehto
- Chinese whispers / Yunte Huang
- Translating the sound in poetry : six propositions / Rosmarie Waldrop
- "Ensemble discords" : translating the music of Maurice Scève's Délie / Richard Sieburth
- The poetry of prose, the unyielding of sound / Gordana P. Crnković
- Sound poetry and the musical avant-garde : a musicologist's perspective / Nancy Perloff
- Cacophony, abstraction, and potentiality : the fate of the Dada sound poem / Steve Mccaffery
- When cyborgs versify / Christian Bök
- Hearing voices / Charles Bernstein
- Impossible reversibilities : Jackson Mac Low / Hélène Aji
- The stutter of form / Craig Dworkin
- The art of being nonsynchronous / Yoko Tawada ; translated by Susan Bernofsky
- Writing articulation of sound forms in time / Susan Howe
- Jean Cocteau's radio poetry / Rubén Gallo
- Sound as subject : Augusto de Campos's poetamenos / Antonio Sergio Bessa
- Not sound / Johanna Drucker
- The sound shape of the visual : toward a phenomenology of an interface / Ming-Qian Ma
- Visual experiment and oral performance / Brian M. Reed
- Postlude : I love speech / Kenneth Goldsmith
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Description
Sound - one of the central elements of poetry - finds itself all but ignored in the current discourse on lyric forms. The essays collected here by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin break that critical silence to readdress some of the fundamental connections between poetry and sound - connections that go far beyond traditional metrical studies. Ranging from medieval Latin lyrics to a cyborg opera, sixteenth-century France to twentieth-century Brazil, romantic ballads to the contemporary avant-garde, "The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound" explores such subjects as the translatability of lyric sound, the historical and cultural roles of rhyme, the role of sound repetition in novelistic prose, the connections between 'sound poetry' and music and between the visual and the auditory, the role of the body in performance, and the impact of recording technologies on the lyric voice. Along the way, the essays take on the 'ensemble discords' of Maurice Sceve's Delie, Ezra Pound's use of 'Chinese whispers', the alchemical theology of Hugo Ball's Dada performances, Jean Cocteau's modernist radiophonics, and an intercultural account of the poetry reading as a kind of dubbing.
A genuinely comparatist study, "The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound" is designed to challenge current preconceptions about what Susan Howe has called 'articulations of sound forms in time' as they have transformed the expanded poetic field of the twenty-first century.
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