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Words in Our Ears, submitted by Wallis Leslie
More >>Much ink and cybertext has been devoted of late to lamenting, deploring, celebrating, and generally wondering about the value of various media for the delivery of words. Each medium has advantages.
In the case of Nicholson Baker's The Anthologist, the author reads his own novel for the audible version of the text. Since the narrator is a poet who is putting together an anthology of contemporary rhymed and metered verse, the delivery of the sounds and rhythms of the words and lines he contemplates is wonderfully delightful and instructive.
Baker takes readers on a quirky tour of trends in poetry through the point of view of narrator Paul Chowder, a somewhat hapless and almost hopeless procrastinator, who finds the writing of an introduction to his anthology a nearly insurmountable task. Chowder's efforts to win the return of his sweetheart Roz, to tend to his dog Smacko, and to keep body and soul together without cutting his finger off musicall...
Posted by Ms. Wallis Leslie on Nov 8 2010 11:11AM | 0 comments
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