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The Sound of Poetry by Marjorie Perloff; Craig Douglas Dworkin; Susan Stewart; Leevi Lehto; Yunte Huang; Rosmarie Waldrop; Richard Sieburth; Gordana P Crnković; Nancy Perloff; Steve McCaffery; Christian Bök; Charles Bernstein; Hélène Aji; Yōko Tawada; Susan Howe; Rubén Gallo; Antonio Sergio Bessa; Johanna Drucker; Ming-Qian Ma; Brian M Reed; Kenneth Goldsmith is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Sound of Poetry about?

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 Sound explore such subjects as the translatability of lyric sound, the historical and cultural roles of rhyme, the role of sound repetition in novelistic prose, the connections between “sound poetry” and music, between the visual and the auditory, the role of the body in performance, and the impact of recording technologies on the lyric voice. Along the way, the essays take on the “ensemble discords” of Maurice Scève’s Délie, Ezra Pound’s use of “Chinese whispers,” the alchemical theology of Hugo Ball’s Dada performances, Jean Cocteau’s modernist radiophonics, and an intercultural account of the poetry reading as a kind of

Author

Marjorie Perloff; Craig Douglas Dworkin; Susan Stewart; Leevi Lehto; Yunte Huang; Rosmarie Waldrop; Richard Sieburth; Gordana P Crnković; Nancy Perloff; Steve McCaffery; Christian Bök; Charles Bernstein; Hélène Aji; Yōko Tawada; Susan Howe; Rubén Gallo; Antonio Sergio Bessa; Johanna Drucker; Ming-Qian Ma; Brian M Reed; Kenneth Goldsmith

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226657448

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.21 / 5 (24 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14