Text--sound Texts

Download or read book Text--sound Texts written by Richard Kostelanetz and published by William Morrow &Company. This book was released on 1980 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Representing a fusion of the avant-garde in poetry, music, and the performing arts, this unique anthology includes poems, scores, scripts, and detailed performance instructions as well as theoretical manifestos and critical essays. Among the more than one hundred pieces are works by Allen Ginsberg, John Cage, Jack Kerouac, Claes Oldenberg, Philip Glass, Raymond Federman, Glenn Gould, Jerome Rothenberg, and Gertrude Stein. Text-Sounds Texts is the first collection of sound poetry to be published in North America; unlike anthologies published abroad, it is devoted exclusively to American and Canadian authors."--Publisher