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Janet Holmes - Humanophone - 9780268030544 - V9780268030544
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Humanophone

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Description for Humanophone Hardcover. This work celebrates composers and creators such as Harry Partch, Raymond Scott, Leon Theremin, and George Ives, who had to invent new instruments to capture the music heard in their "mind's ear". It's subject is the artist's dilemma - how to deliver a new idea through existing media. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; AVA; DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 286.

The poetry in Humanophone, the third volume from award-winning poet Janet Holmes, celebrates composers and creators such as Harry Partch, Raymond Scott, Leon Theremin, and George Ives, who had to invent new instruments to capture the music heard in their “mind’s ear.” Taking its title from a George Ives invention—an instrument made from a group of humans, each of whom sings a single note, arrayed like a xylophone—Humanophone appears on its surface to be about music. But its real subject is the artist’s creative dilemma—how to deliver a new idea, whether it be a song or a poem, through existing ... Read more

Holmes works language into a variety of forms both familiar—syllabics, couplets, villanelles, sonnets—and engagingly new. With everything from kumquats to abandoned wedding pictures, Clara Bow to Bill Robinson, Keats’s belle dame to Dante’s Francesca, feng shui to a recipe for octopus, Humanophone celebrates how the body shapes art from the world it is given.

In Humanophone, Holmes not only chronicles events such as Harry Partch’s transformation of glass chemical containers from the Berkeley Radiation Lab into the melodious and beautiful Cloud-Chamber Bowls, but also traces a playful path through the familiar, as a trombone’s upwards glissando becomes “a backwards pratfall/in brass.” Engaging a broad array of subjects, Holmes’s poetry is as delightful as it is thoughtful, as simple as it is complex.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
86
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268030544
SKU
V9780268030544
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About Janet Holmes
Janet Holmes is the author of three volumes of poetry. Her second volume, The Green Tuxedo, was awarded the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry and is also published by the University of Notre Dame Press. Holmes has won numerous awards for her poems, which have appeared in a wide range of publications, including two editions of The Best American Poetry ... Read more

Reviews for Humanophone
“. . . these poems surprise, they are carefully crafted, intelligent first-person lyrics—the line-breaks alone are a lesson in poetic craft—but often untraditional, despite the appearance of some recognizable forms. . . . Having come to respect how words are made new in this book, I went back to my dictionary to find "ferment" is not only a cause of ... Read more

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