The poetry circuit : live reading 1900-1970
Peter Howarth
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
| Omfang | vii, 367 sider
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| Opplysninger | Introduction 1:The Modernist Reading 2:Projective and Receptive Verse 3:Langston Hughes Belongs to Everybody 4:The Impersonal Poet Reads in Person 5:Marianne Moore's Performances 6:Poets' Theatre 7:Confession, Protest, and Apocalypse Select Bibliography Index. - "Reading on the poetry circuit changed how poetry happened. Poems now had to work within a risky and unpredictable situation where every word would be framed by the author's body, the reading's time, the audience's social expectations, and the institutional powers bringing them together. Surveying readings by Wallace Stevens and W. H. Auden, this introduction sets out how the live reading became a new poetic medium for the twentieth century, distinct from radio or recording, and why readings have remained something of a blind spot for literary criticism and theory. By involving its whole setting, the reading brought back the author to read her own poems, only to open up a challenge to what ownership and authorship of poems was"--. - Live performance has changed poetry more than anything else in the last hundred years: it has given poets new audiences and a new economy, and it has generated new styles, from Imagism, to confessional, to contemporary Spoken Word. But the creative impact that public reading had right through the twentieth century has not been well understood. Mixing close listening to archive performances with intimate histories of modernist venues and promotors, The Poetry Circuit tells the story of how poets met their audience again, and how the feedback loops between their voices, the venues, and the occasions turned poems into running dramas between poet and listener. A nervous T. S. Eliot reveals himself to be anything but impersonal, while Marianne Moore's accident-prone readings become subtle ways of keeping her poems in constant re-draft. Robert Frost used his poems to spar with his fans and rivals, while Langston Hughes wrote Ask Your Mama to expose the prejudice circulating in the room as he spoke it. The Poetry Circuit also shows how the post-war reading boom made new kinds of poetry involving their audience and setting in the performance, such as John Ashbery's anti-charismatic Poets' Theatre, Amiri Baraka's documentary soundtracks of the streets, or the confessional readings of Allen Ginsberg, which shame the listeners more than the poet. Covering the first seventy years of the poetry reading, The Poetry Circuit demonstrates that there never were 'page' and 'stage' poets: the reading simply changed what every modern poet could do.
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| Emner | poesi lyrikk litterær kritikk lesing historie 1900 tallet
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| ISBN | 9780192896940
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