Born in the chaos of WWI Europe, sound poetry is a genre which defies common sense and interpretation, a poetic system in which nonsense syllables take the place of words. Hugo Ball, founder of sound poetry and the Dada movement, viewed his creation as both artistic and political. Ball's innovations went on to influence poets and musicians throughout the world, from the scat singing of Ella Fitzgerald to today's algorithmic poets. Hugo Ball and the Fate of the Universe follows author Lane Chasek's journey to write his own sound poem. Along the way, he faces the challenge of piecing together sound poetry's legacy--how it transformed our relationship with meaning and language, and how language itself wields the power to both heal and destroy us.
In creating this anthology, we attempt to showcase a wide range authors from different backgrounds and their various approaches to using the supernatural and paranormal in their writing, ranging from the Gothic tradition with Elizabeth Gaskell to the modernist era of disillusionment of H.P. Lovecraft. Contents: The Old Nurse's Story, Elizabeth Gaskell -The Haunted Palace, Edgar Allan Poe - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving -The Laughing Ghost, P'ou Song Lin - The Devils of the Ocean, P'ou Song Lin -The Monkey's Paw, W. W. Jacobs -The Rabbi's Bogey-Man, Gertrude Landa - The Haunted Orchard, Richard Le Gallienne - An Egyptian Cigarette, Kate Chopin - The Tarn of Sacrifice, Algernon Blackwood - Dagon, H. P. Lovecraft
Born in the chaos of WWI Europe, sound poetry is a genre which defies common sense and interpretation, a poetic system in which nonsense syllables take the place of words. Hugo Ball, founder of sound poetry and the Dada movement, viewed his creation as both artistic and political. Ball's innovations went on to influence poets and musicians throughout the world, from the scat singing of Ella Fitzgerald to today's algorithmic poets. Hugo Ball and the Fate of the Universe follows author Lane Chasek's journey to write his own sound poem. Along the way, he faces the challenge of piecing together sound poetry's legacy--how it transformed our relationship with meaning and language, and how language itself wields the power to both heal and destroy us.
In creating this anthology, we attempt to showcase a wide range authors from different backgrounds and their various approaches to using the supernatural and paranormal in their writing, ranging from the Gothic tradition with Elizabeth Gaskell to the modernist era of disillusionment of H.P. Lovecraft. Contents: The Old Nurse's Story, Elizabeth Gaskell -The Haunted Palace, Edgar Allan Poe - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving -The Laughing Ghost, P'ou Song Lin - The Devils of the Ocean, P'ou Song Lin -The Monkey's Paw, W. W. Jacobs -The Rabbi's Bogey-Man, Gertrude Landa - The Haunted Orchard, Richard Le Gallienne - An Egyptian Cigarette, Kate Chopin - The Tarn of Sacrifice, Algernon Blackwood - Dagon, H. P. Lovecraft
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