David Brazil

John McHardy Sinclair

Teacher Talk

Kevin Killian

Poetry. Drama. Asian American Studies. African American Studies. Women's Studies. Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Studies. With new interest in poetry as a performative art, and with prewar experiments much in mind, the young poets of postwar America infused the stage with the rhythms and shocks of their poetry. From the multidisciplinary nexus of Black Mountain, to the Harvard-based Cambridge Poets Theater, to the West Coast Beats and San Francisco Renaissance, these energies manifested themselves all at once, and through the decades have continued to grow and mutate, innovating a form of writing that defies boundaries of genre. THE KENNING ANTHOLOGY OF POETS THEATER: 1945-1985 documents the emergence, growth, and varied fortunes of the form over decades of American literary history, with a focus on key regional movements. The largest and most comprehensive anthology of its kind yet assembled, the volume collects classics of poets theater as well as rarities long out of print and texts from unpublished manuscripts and archives. It will be an indispensable reference for students of postwar American poetry and avant-garde theater.

The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater 1945-1985

In A TALK ON RHYME, a text distilled from a lecture given in 2014, poet David Brazil reflects on rhyme's "emergence, progress, inoperativity, and prospect." The Talk is supplemented by an essayistic bibliography on subjects ranging from classical prosody to American folk music, via writings on and by poets long dead whose names are obvious: Saint Paul, Dickinson, Herbert, Spicer, Hölderlin, Dante, O'Hara.

A Talk on Rhyme

This fresh analysis of spoken English grammar is based on the observation of naturally-occurring speech, rather than deriving from inappropriate pre-existing written models.

A Grammar of Speech

The revised edition of David Brazil's seminal work The Communicative Value of Intonation in English.

The Communicative Value of Intonation in English Book

Catherine Johns

Malcolm Coulthard

Designed to accompany the authors' book of the same title. The tape provides 2 separate sets of examples for each chapter. They illustrate the text and are numbered to correspond to the identification designations that occur in parentheses in the book. There are also additional examples and transcriptions.

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