Fast Speaking Woman: Chants and Essays Waldman AnnePaperback
Fast Speaking Woman: Chants and Essays Waldman AnnePaperback Anne Waldman takes the opportunity with this twentieth-anniversary expanded edition to add twenty poems to this collection that brings…
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Fast Speaking Woman: Chants and Essays Waldman AnnePaperback
Anne Waldman takes the opportunity with this twentieth-anniversary expanded edition to add twenty poems to this collection that brings into focus her lifelong engagement with "chant" as central to contemporary performative poetry.Here are spells, invocations, laments, ritual rants. Waldman writes, "The poem is a textured energy field or modal structure. Archaic beliefs in magic and ecstasy meet current notions of the power of the spoken word.
They come together in a mental, verbal, physical, and emotional form, making their particular demands on my voice and body. The poems for performance seem to manifest as psychological states of mind. I am the 'energumen.' The poem is the experience." Also included in this book are three essays on the oral tradition in poetry.
One essay discusses the history and occasion of the title poem. The others treat such topics as performance art
Inquiry and Essays
Essays and Fictions
Caliban and Other Essays
Nature and Other Essays
Anarchism and Other Essays
Nature and Other Essays
Film Essays and Criticism
Anarchism and Other Essays