Contemporary Poetry

96 contemporary poetry University Press, 1984 ). All subsequent references to this edition are given in the text. 58. Yusef Komu ...

politics and poetics 97 Ibid. NourbeSe Philip, Zong! p. 203. NourbeSe Philip, ‘Defending the Dead’, pp. 70 – 1. NourbeSe Philip ...

chapter 3 Performance and the Poem T he term ‘performance poetry’ is now commonly used to describe a presentation that may never ...

performance and the poem 99 OPEN FIELD POETICS AND PROJECTIVE VERSE: ADAPTATIONS Published in 1950 , Charles Olson’s groundbreak ...

100 contemporary poetry the written page. The graphemic possibilities inscribed in Olson’s work are developed by contemporary cr ...

performance and the poem 101 COUNTERCULTURAL PERFORMANCE: LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI In his essay ‘Modern Poetry is Prose’ ( 1978 ), ...

102 contemporary poetry phrase ‘I am Waiting’, which acts as a refrain. Paradoxically, this phrase’s constant recontextualisatio ...

performance and the poem 103 poetry also shares his intention to reach a public and incite politi- cal change. Originally named ...

104 contemporary poetry Know the words of the users, the semantic rituals of power ... Words’ meanings, but also rhythm and synt ...

performance and the poem 105 tradition centred in a single stream of art and literature in the West to a greater tradition that ...

106 contemporary poetry fi rearm, the poem pays homage to Coltrane as ‘black blower of the now / The vectors from all sources – ...

performance and the poem 107 noted that his own compulsion towards a jazz poetic is the inscrip- tion of history within the perf ...

108 contemporary poetry Initially, he explains dub poetry as an attempt to fi nd a way of addressing what DJs at the time were d ...

performance and the poem 109 Although initially associated with poetic performance in front of an audience, the poets affi liate ...

110 contemporary poetry poems’, Mutabaruka’s poem is both a call to arms – ‘dis poem is knives... bombs... guns’ – as well as a ...

performance and the poem 111 tactics associated with warfare and crowd control makes the poem not only a weapon of instruction a ...

112 contemporary poetry In another poem, ‘Rapid Rapping’, Zephaniah gives thanks to poet precursors, as well as emphasising the ...

performance and the poem 113 the personages he evokes are enacted and transmitted to the community that gave rise to them.^30 In ...

114 contemporary poetry the dramatist upon the speaker’s world as ‘deeply oppressive’.^34 Technically Beckett exerts an infl uen ...

performance and the poem 115 of Mary, and the tenacity and belief of Mary Magdalen. These characteristics become confused in the ...