Listening to Reading

Title: Listening to Reading
Author: Stephen Ratcliffe
ISBN: 9780791445044
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2000
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Good
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Contends that "experimental" writing--from Mallarme, Stein, and Cage to contemporary poets of the eighties and nineties--can teach us much about how we write and read both poetry and criticism.

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.