Contributors

Introduction

CHARLES BERNSTEIN

I. SOUND'S MEASURES

1 Letter on Sound

SUSAN STEWART

2 The Aural Ellipsis and the Nature of Listening in Contemporary Poetry

NICK PIOMBINO

3 Praxis: A Political Economy of Noise and Information

BRUCE ANDREWS

4 After Free Verse: The New Nonlinear Poetries

MARJORIE PERLOFF

5 Ether Either

SUSAN HOWE

II. PERFORMING WORDS

6 Visual Performance of the Poetic Text

JOHANNA DRUCKER

7 Voice in Extremis

STEVE McCAFFERY

8 Toward a Poetics of Polyphony and Translatability

DENNIS TEDLOCK

9 Speech Effects: The Talk as a Genre

BOB PERELMAN

10 Sound Reading

PETER QUARTERMAIN

III. CLOSE HEARINGS/HISTORICAL SETTINGS

11 Understanding the Sound of Not Understanding

JED RASULA

12 The Contemporary Poetry Reading

PETER MIDDLETON

13 Neon Griot: The Functional Role of Poetry Readings in the Black Arts Movement

LORENZO THOMAS

14 Was That "Different," "Dissident" or "Dissonant"? Poetry (n) the Public Spear: Slams, Open Readings, and Dissident Traditions

MARIA DAMON

15 Local Vocals: Hawai`i's Pidgin Literature, Performance, and Postcoloniality

SUSAN M. SCHULTZ

Afterword: Who Speaks: Ventriloquism and the Self in the Poetry Reading

RON SILLIMAN

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