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The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound: The 2006 MLA Presidential Forum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Marjorie Perloff  and
Craig Dworkin
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An onomatopoeic expression automatically entails the specification of what is being described. A pattering sound cannot come from a piece of wood. But when I was listening to [Peter Ablinger's Berlin sound] recordings, I sometimes couldn't tell whether a sound was coming from thunder or a sheet of metal. I wanted to represent the sound, not the person who was producing it, nor its metaphorical significance. It took me quite some time to come up with a solution: My solution was not to find a solution, but rather to enter into the crevice between sound and language and make countless little notes.

—Yoko Tawada, “The Art of Being Synchronous”

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The Changing Profession
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PMLA , Volume 123 , Issue 3 , May 2008 , pp. 749 - 761
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Copyright © 2008 by The Modern Language Association of America

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