Word Score Utterance Choreography
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| Word Score Utterance Choreography Editor: Bob Cobbling & Lawrence Upton Contributors: Jeremy Adler, John Cayley, Cris Cheek, Dave Baptiste Chirot, Bob Cobbing, Johanna Drucker, Paul Dutton, Patricia Farrell, Peter Finch, Ulli Freer, Pierre Garnier, Bill Griffiths, Bob Grumman, Sten Hanson, Åke Hodell, Dom Silvester Houédard, Peter Jaeger, Ernst Jandl, Chris Jones, Bill Keith, Myroslav Korol, Tom Leonard, Scotland; Arrigo Lora-Totino, Steve McCaffery, Jackson Mac Low, Peter Manson, Franz Mon, Edwin Morgan, Lucas Mulder, Alistair Noone, Maggie O'Sullivan, Clemente Padin, Jim Rosenberg, Spencer Selby, Mykolo Soroka, Alaric Sumner, Mark Sutherland, Hiroshi Tanobu, Richard Kelly Tipping, Lawrence Upton, M J Weller, Nicholas Zurbrugg. |
One of Britain's more intellectual but none the less interesting modern poets, Jeremy Prynne, observing Chinese poetry, has written of "...our credit-card view of speech art (how crude, to set the choice as text & graphics)."
Raymond Briggs' ineligibility for a 1998 Booker Prize because his Ethel & Earnest has too many pictures is one depressing example of literary culture's crude choice against graphics. And the sub-culture that embraces comic books all too readily sets crude choice against text, or more particularly, the poetics that drive text. But without poetics - text and graphics - Windsor McCay, George Herriman, Bob Kane, Siegel & Schuster (a select handful of cartoon-strip pioneers) would not have produced their marvellous comics creations.
Word Score Utterance Choreography is a rare item because it doesn't set the choice as text or graphics. This anthology of forty-two around the world modern & post-modern poets; edited by Bob Cobbling and Lawrence Upton, is an inspiration, an enriching resources, and a practical 'how to' guide for readers, producers, and performers of all vocalising, verbal and visual arts.
Mike Weller.
| Word Score Utterance Choreography: 156 B4 perfect bound pages ISBN 0 86162 750 4 |
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