Voicing American poetry
Subtitle: sound and performance from the 1920s to the present
By: Lesley Wheeler.
Series: Cornell paperbacks
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780801446689; 9780801474422
Subjects: Oral interpretation of poetry -- United States -- History.; Performance poetry -- United States -- History and criticism.; Poetry slams -- United States -- History.; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-222) and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction : voice identification; value: Sounding poetic voice; value: Edna St. Vincent Millay's performance of presence; value: Voice and the visual poetry of Langston Hughes; value: Lyric collaborations : James Merrill, David Jackson, Denise Duhamel, and Maureen Seaton; value: Voice activated : contemporary academic poetry readings to the National Poetry Slam; value: Afterword : resonances; value: Appendix A : a selected list of public poetry soundings since 1950; value: Appendix B : five poets from four corners : an interview, August 2005.