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Listening to Reading

Name: Listening to Reading
Author: Stephen Ratcliffe
ISBN: 9780791445044

by Stephen Ratcliffe

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Overview

Cultural Writing. Poetics.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 relation of sound/shape to meaning. It offers a critical and performative presentation of experimental writing, including essays on work by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, David Bromige, Lyn Hejinian, Clark Coolidge, Beverly Dahlen, Susan Howe, Michael Palmer, Leslie Scalapino and others. [This] discussion of difficult, ostensibly 'inaccessible' poetries cries out for a wider audience, and could have a far-reaching impact on our general understanding of critical theory and practice - Joe Amato. Among Stephen Ratcliffe's many titles available from SPD are IDEA'S MIRROR, PRESENT TENSE and MALLARME: A POEM IN PROSE.

About the Author, Stephen Ratcliffe

Stephen Ratcliffe is a poet and critic whose most recent book is REAL, a 474-page book of poems written in 474 consecutive days (Avenue B, 2007). Previous books include PORTRAITS & REPETITION (The Post-Apollo Press, 2002) and SOUND/(SYSTEM) (Green Integer, 2002). LISTENING TO READING, a collection of essays on contemporary experimental poetry, was published by SUNY Press in 2000. He is also the author of Campion: On Song (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981). He lives in Bolinas, California, and teaches at Mills College in Oakland.