The Audible Word - Contents

  Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .iii
  Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi

  Introduction:Towards a Poetics of the Audible Word . . . . . . . . . .  1

  Chapter One:Phatic Voicings: The Modernist Body Sounds These
       Syllables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
          Sounding Bodies/Bodying Sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
          "Particles of a wind that falters": William Carlos Williams' Vernal
               Soundings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
          Sound Figures: A Preliminary Range of Effects. . . . . . . . . 47
          "A laughter that is curiously physical": Mina Loy's Songs. . . 72
          Eruptions and Disruptions of Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

  Chapter Two:Ethnopoetics: Tradition, Transcription, and the Culture of
       Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
          Precursors and Their Limits: Literary Studies and Anthropology102
          The Emergence and Consequences of Ethnopoetics: Reclaiming
               the Whole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
          Re-Tuning: Turning the Ethnopoetic Ear Towards Written Poetry.160
          "To say a couple of myths that are pertinent": Myth, Poetry,
               Speech, and Writing in the Work of Cecilia Vicuña . . . .163
          Written and Breathing: The Double Working of Words . . . . . .176
          "Voice is the bridge": The Poem and its Spoken Double. . . . .194
          "The word is short". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .204

  Chapter Three:Hearing Ear Language Sound: The Aural Resources of
       Louis Zukofsky's "A". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207
          Material Language: The Consonance of Twentieth-Century Poetics
               and Ordinary Language Philosophy. . . . . . . . . . . . .214
          A Pythagorean Design: Column of Words, Stone, Sound. . . . . .230
          Sequenced Parataxis: A History of "Sounding One" . . . . . . .252
          "Cento-reading" and Recurrence: "A"-24 Hears the Whole . . . .272
          The Ear and the Work Never Ceasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . .298

  Conclusion: The Audible Word. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .304

  Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .312