Citation Contents Reviews Purchase ISBN 9780226657424, 9780226657431 Citation: Perloff, Marjorie and Craig Dworkin, Eds. The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. Contents: The sound of poetry / the poetry of sound / Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin 1 Prelude: Poetry and Orality? / Jacques Roubaud (translated [...]
Before conceptual art became prominent in the late 1960s, there was already, so Craig Dworkin has suggested in his “Anthology of Conceptual Writing” for Ubu Web (http://www.ubu.com/), a form of writing identifiable as conceptual poetry, although that term was not normally used to discuss the chance-generated texts of John Cage and Jackson Mac Low or the “word events” of George Brecht and La […]
In the 1980s, “language poetry” was such a dominant force in U.S. avant-garde circles that we are only now beginning to realize that something we might designate as “post-language” poetry has come into its own. Peter Gizzi and Elizabeth Willis, for example, studied at Buffalo and Brown with Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe, and Rosmarie Waldrop, yet Gizzi’s […]