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roachboy · 12-13-2008, 04:59 PM

but not all poetry that reads well works well spoken--and vice versa.
and there are many instances where poetry that works well read can be performed in ways that reveal new aspects of the piece---so much that i think of these as different pieces (the text, the performance piece)--a curious example is a recording tha james joyce made of the anna livia plurabelle section of finnegans wake. it is almost a transformation of the text. the voice off the page isn't the same as that which you hear--and hearing the recorded voice changes how you read the text. to my mind, this is an optimal kind of relation--something that works one way on the page and other ways as performance.

i need to go find some dinner...

12-13-2008, 04:59 PM	#33 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	but not all poetry that reads well works well spoken--and vice versa. and there are many instances where poetry that works well read can be performed in ways that reveal new aspects of the piece---so much that i think of these as different pieces (the text, the performance piece)--a curious example is a recording tha james joyce made of the anna livia plurabelle section of finnegans wake. it is almost a transformation of the text. the voice off the page isn't the same as that which you hear--and hearing the recorded voice changes how you read the text. to my mind, this is an optimal kind of relation--something that works one way on the page and other ways as performance. i need to go find some dinner... __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 12-13-2008 at 05:10 PM..