Alphabet Theater: Performance Poetry - Couverture souple

Stricker, Meredith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0819565237 ISBN 13 : 9780819565235

Editeur : Wesleyan University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Intelligent, emotionally engaging multi-media performance poetry.

A mixed-media tour de force, Alphabet Theater breaks open the page to extend poetic practice into the realms of visual art and performance. Its complex and innovative format layers poetry, video stills, drawing and collages in pieces that range from performance art to opera and political theater. The book's four distinctive sections encompass four separate performances. In "The Poor Body," first performed in collaboration with choreographer Elizabeth Lahey, the text alternates with video stills of movement. "The Lightning Hive" is a "semiotic opera" swarming with letters and bees in motion, accompanied by staging notes and drawings. The performance space "The Still Place" is the page itself, exploring the fragile border between the "I" and the "not-I." Finally, "Read My Apocalypse," is a performance that tracks the months preceding the Gulf War in a kind of desperate vaudeville with material and references ranging from Milton and apocalypse psychology to Pat Robertson, Love Canal and W.C. Williams. This book is a thoroughly engaging transit through the landscapes of contemporary culture and relationships.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

MEREDITH STRICKLER is an artist and poet living on California's Central Coast. She is a partner in an art and architecture studio, and is developing the Center for Visual Poetry to bring together artists, writers and experimental forms. Her previous collection of poetry and images was selected as a finalist for the National Poetry Series Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wesleyan University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0819565237
• ISBN 13: 9780819565235
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 108
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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