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"Soundings in Context brings together the second and third University at Buffalo Robert Creeley Lectures in Poetry and Poetics by the renowned literary and textual scholar Jerome McGann, and the innovative, prolific Canadian poet, essayist, and novelist Lisa Robertson, respectively. The volume's first half presents McGann's ""Reading (I Mean Articulating) Poetry, a Multi-Player Game,"" with responses by Nikolaus Wasmoen and Steve McCaffery; the second presents Lisa Robertson's ""Dous Chantar: Refrain for a Nightingale,"" with responses by Shannon Maguire and Liz Howard. Initially given at different moments and since revised, the pieces considered in the lectures range widely, moving from the Romantics and medieval troubadour poetry to T. S. Eliot, Jackson Mac Low, Jacques Rouboud, and far beyond. Still, they are collectively concerned with questions of voice, recitation, and reception in different contexts; with sonic patterning and its modes of significance; and with foregrounding an embodied experience of oral and written language as opposed to its interpretation. McGann, Robertson, and their interlocutors all propose affective, pragmatic approaches to poetry that allow it to surface as materially formative, alive and lived. Reading their contributions together offers an opportunity to see how these values present themselves in differing cultures of poetic scenography across space and time."

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Author:   Judith Goldman ,  James Maynard
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438497563

ISBN 10:   1438497563
Pages:   178
Publication Date:   01 May 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Judith Goldman and James Maynard Part I 1. 2017 Robert Creeley Lecture in Poetry and Poetics: Reading (I Mean Articulating) Poetry, a Multiplayer Game Jerome McGann 2. ""My speech for that unspoken"": Recitation and Recognition in T. S. Eliot's ""Marina"": Response to Jerome McGann Nikolaus Wasmoen 3. Jerome McGann's ""Reading (I Mean Articulating) Poetry, a Multiplayer Game"": A Response Steve McCaffery Part II 4. 2018 Robert Creeley Lecture in Poetry and Poetics: Dous Chantar: Refrain for a Nightingale Lisa Robertson 5. Making-with Nightingales and Ants: A Response to Lisa Robertson Shannon Maguire 6. 2018 Robert Creeley Lecture Roundtable Discussion: Featuring Lisa Robertson, with Shannon Maguire and Liz Howard Moderated by Judith Goldman List of Contributors Index"

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Judith Goldman is Associate Professor and Director of the Poetics Program in the Department of English at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She is the author of l.b.; or, catenaries and agon, among other books. James Maynard is Curator of the Poetry Collection of the University Libraries at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His publications include an edition of Robert Duncan: Collected Essays and Other Prose and Robert Duncan and the Pragmatist Sublime.

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