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 [...]
The term avant-garde, we sometimes forget, was originally a military metaphor: it referred to the front flank of the army, the forerunners in battle who paved the way for the rest (see Calinescu 98-99). The avant-garde is thus, by definition, ahead of its time. But not in an evolutionary sense, for the avant-garde is also invariably […]
The “personal” is already a plural condition. Perhaps one feels that it is located somewhere within, somewhere inside the body–in the stomach? the chest? the genitals? the throat? the head? One can look for it and already one is not oneself, one is […]
“Pictures,” declares Morris Eaves in his provocative “Graphicality: Multimedia Fables for ‘Textual Critics’,” “remain a thorn in the side even of cyberspace. . . . video and audio . . . remain grotesquely primitive, complicated, and elusive beside the reasssuringly streamlined and stable letters and lines of standard, searchable, intermeasurable ASCII text. . . . the relation of the graphical to the textual remains […]
