The sound of poetry, the poetry of sound
By: edited by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin.
Contributors: Perloff, Marjorie.; Dworkin, Craig Douglas.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780226657424; 9780226657431
Subjects: Sound poetry
Description: Sound has been all but ignored in the current discourse about lyric forms. This collection of essays seeks to readdress the fundamental connections between poetry and sound - connections that go far beyond traditional metrical studies.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The sound of poetry, the poetry of sound / Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin; title: Prelude: poetry and orality? / Jacques Roubaud (translated by Jean-Jacques Poucel); title: pt. 1. 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. Crnkovi; title: pt. 2. Performing sound.  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 ; Wwhen 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); title: pt. 3. Sounding 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.