The sound of poetry, the poetry of sound / edited by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Perloff, Marjorie.

Dworkin, Craig Douglas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 contributors to The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sou

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound (Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin); Prelude: Poetry and Orality (Jacques Roubaud; Translated by Jean-Jacques Poucel); Part I: Translating Sound; 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. Crnkovic); Part II: Performing Sound

Sound Poetry and the Musical Avant-Garde: A Musicologist's Perspective (Nancy Perloff)Cacophony, Abstraction, and Potentiality: The Fate of 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); Part III: Souding the Visual; 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); Notes; List of Contributors; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)

ISBN:

9786612426797

9781282426795

1282426796

9780226657448

0226657442

OCLC:

489201745