Doubletalking the Homophonic Sublime: Comedy, Appropriation, and the Sounds of One Hand Clapping

by Charles Bernstein

Homophonic translations create poems that foreground the sound of the original more than the lexical meaning: sound-alike poems or "sound writing." This essay presents a dizzying number of examples of sound mimesis as a way to explore the poetics of sound and the politics of translation. Covering modernists (such as Pound, Bunting, and Khelbnikov) and contemporaries (such as David Melnick and Caroline Bergvall), the Bernstein also addresses homophonics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581771940
• ISBN13: 9781581771947
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.6"