Listening to reading
By: Stephen Ratcliffe.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898 -- Influence; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Experimental poetry, American -- History and criticism; Visual poetry -- History and criticism; Sound poetry -- History and criticism; Oral interpretation of poetry
Description: "Listening to Reading presents two different kinds of writing about poetry - "critical analysis" and "performance" - both of which pay particular attention to sound, shape, and the relation of sound/shape to meaning. It offers a critical and performative presentation of experimental writing, also known as avant garde, postmodern, innovative, and language writing.

Less concerned with labels than with asking how this writing works, it invites us to read from earlier works by Mallarme, Stein, and Cage to books published in the eighties and nineties by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, David Bromige, Clark Coolidge, Beverly Dahlen, Michael Davidson, Larry Eigner, Robert Grenier, Lyn Hejinian, Paul Hoover, Susan Howe, Ron Padgett, Michael Palmer, and Leslie Scalapino - writers whose work is viewed as difficult, and who have as yet been largely ignored by criticism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-206) and index.
A collection of essays written 1985-1998 for various occasions and published, many in earlier versions, in  various sources, 1986-1999.