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Close Listening - Poetry and the Performed Word (Hardcover, New)
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Close Listening - Poetry and the Performed Word (Hardcover, New)
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Close Listening and the Performed Word brings together seventeen
strikingly original essays, especially written for this volume, on
the poetry reading, the sounds 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 negligible. This collection opens many new
avenues for the critical discussion of the sound and performance of
poetry, with special attention to innovative work. More important,
the essays collected here offer brilliant and wide-ranging
elucidations of how twentieth-century poetry has been practiced as
a performance art. The contributors--including Marjorie Perloff,
Susan Stewart, Johanna Drucker, Dennis Tedlock, and Susan
Howe--cover topics that range 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
and to new imaginations of prosody. Such approaches are intended to
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 word. With readings and "spoken word"
events gaining an increasing audience for poetry, Close Listening
provides an indispensable critical groundwork for understanding the
importance of language in--and as--performance.
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