03515nam 2200661Ia 450 991046565070332120200520144314.01-280-45325-70-19-535507-50-19-510992-91-4237-5954-01-60256-155-9(CKB)2560000000295601(EBL)728829(OCoLC)782867124(SSID)ssj0000123830(PQKBManifestationID)11141275(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000123830(PQKBWorkID)10016763(PQKB)11512587(StDuBDS)EDZ0000034466(MiAaPQ)EBC728829(Au-PeEL)EBL728829(CaPaEBR)ebr10142363(CaONFJC)MIL45325(EXLCZ)99256000000029560119971028d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrClose listening[electronic resource] poetry and the performed word /edited by Charles BernsteinNew York Oxford University Press19981 online resource (401 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-510991-0 0-19-985526-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-390).Contents; Contributors; Introduction; I. SOUND'S MEASURES; 1 Letter on Sound; 2 The Aural Ellipsis and the Nature of Listening in Contemporary Poetry; 3 Praxis: A Political Economy of Noise and Information; 4 After Free Verse: The New Nonlinear Poetries; 5 Ether Either; II. PERFORMING WORDS; 6 Visual Performance of the Poetic Text; 7 Voice in Extremis; 8 Toward a Poetics of Polyphony and Translatability; 9 Speech Effects: The Talk as a Genre; 10 Sound Reading; III. CLOSE HEARINGS/HISTORICAL SETTINGS; 11 Understanding the Sound of Not Understanding; 12 The Contemporary Poetry Reading13 Neon Griot: The Functional Role of Poetry Readings in the Black Arts Movement14 Was That ""Different,"" ""Dissident"" or ""Dissonant""? Poetry (n) the Public Spear: Slams, Open Readings, and Dissident Traditions; 15 Local Vocals: Hawaiis Pidgin Literature, Performance, and Postcoloniality; Afterword: Who Speaks: Ventriloquism and the Self in the Poetry Reading; Audio Resources; BibliographyClose Listening brings together seventeen strikingly original 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. This volume, featuring work by critics and poets such as Marjorie Perloff, Susan Stewart, Johanna Drucker, Dennis Tedlock, and Susan Howe, is the first comprehensive introduction to the ways in which twentieth-century poetry has been practiced as a performancPoeticsAmerican poetryHistory and criticismEnglish poetryHistory and criticismElectronic books.Poetics.American poetryHistory and criticism.English poetryHistory and criticism.808.1Bernstein Charles1950-547911MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465650703321Close listening2167193UNINA