Third voice / Ruth Ellen Kocher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kocher, Ruth Ellen, 1965- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Women authors.

American poetry.

Women poets, American.

Poetry, Modern--21st century.

Poetry, Modern.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 96 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

North Adams, Massachusetts : Tupelo Press, 2016.

Summary:

The incomprehensible nature of the sublime emerges through a cast of personalities including Eartha Kitt, Geordi LaForge, Immanuel Kant, W. E. B. Du Bois, Malcolm X and the book's central character, Lacy Neva Igga, an American Studies professor who lives as a minstrel character trapped inside the head of a nameless woman. Kocher uses what T. S. Eliot called the "third voice" of lyric drama as a means for characters to address and interrogate literary culture. Third Voice asserts lyric beyond personal expression and drama beyond the stage, using the spectacle of minstrelsy as a deformation of mastery in an audaciously conceptual yet visceral performance.--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

How to Stage a Minstrel Show 2

Cast 3

Skit: Lacy Watches Richard Pryor Talk about Love 4

Sentimental Song: Beneath the Sound Outside, a Child Crying, Lacy N. Igga Considers Last, But Most, the Bird 6

New Jokes for Female Minstrels 8

Skit: The Sound of Another Woman's Heart Pounding 9

When She Is Awake 11

Olio 42 14

Skit: Paul Robeson on Stein, After 16

Skit: Pearl Bailey and Eartha Kitt Revise Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful 17

Olio 44 19

A Merry Minstrel Book 22

Skit: Lacy N. Igga's Outline of Knowledge 23

Skit: She Looks Up Parasomnia but Thinks Middle Passage 25

Skit: Lacy N. Igga Takes the Stage 27

Ready-Made 30

Olio 65 32

Dat's What's De Matter 34

Skit: Sun Ra Welcomes the Fallen 35

Skit: She Is Asked About the Sublime 37

Olio 34 40

Olio 19 42

She Manifests Her Own Ineffable 44

Olio 23 45

Skit: Diaspora III, or Geordi The Form of Space 47

Skit: MLK Jr. and Lieutenant Uhuru Have Coffee and Cake 49

Skit: Malcolm X and Marcus Garvey Walk Their Dogs 51

Olio 13 54

When Cork is King 56

Olio 22 57

Skit: Creigh-Z. N. Igga Climbs a Tree 60

De Melancholy Evolution of Me 62

[No Saints] One Act 63

First-Part Crossfire 68

When You Say Grotesque 69

Conundrum: Somnus 2 72

Skit: Lacy Teaches the Sublime 74

Skit: Lacy N. Igga Considers, Again, Burke's "The Effect of Blackness" 79

Monologue: Eva N. Igga and Neva N. Igga Twins Not Yet Imagined 82

Skit: Eva Neva and Neva "Neva Igga, Twin Babies Come Late 86

Olio 7 88.

ISBN:

9781936797738

1936797739

OCLC:

949987179

Publisher Number:

99968869167