One time I got my students to listen to clips from 3 Brits (Auden, Graves,
Dylan Thomas) and 3 Americans (well, you might say "Americans": Eliot,
Pound, Stevens) and asked them to figure out which was which. Pound was the
only one they 'got', and I think that was because he sounded so
idiosyncratic.
The others sound so similar. It is as though there was an ideology of making
the poem sound as much as possible like it does on the page.
P
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> If you've ever heard Anne Waldman or Victor Hernandez Cruz or
> Michael McClure read their work you'd know that there are
> alternative voices and voicings.
> While I agree a lot of what I hear read is sad, I also catch
> some good readings too; my pal David Gitin has done some
> great work with musicians, etc. And I might add that Miles
> might have said, "He's a motherfucker!" if he'd heard me
> deliver my own verse. I think a balance can be struck between
> performance and being in service to the word. The audience
> will know when staging is outstripping substance. The Emporer
> wears no clothes, etc.
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
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> From: "Sharon Brogan"
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> > the line breaks are great. the point is painful.
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