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	Ethnopoetics Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ethnopoetics is the study of folk poetry traditions.
		The development of Ethnopoetics as a separate field of study was largely pioneered from the middle of the 20th century by anthropologists and linguists such as Dell Hymes and Dennis Tedlock.
		Depending on point of view ethnopoetics can be seen as a subfield of either Ethnology, Anthropology, Folkloristics, Stylistics, Linguistics, or Literature.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Ethnopoetics.html (332 words)

	ETHNOPOETICS AT THE MILLENNIUM
		This was in fact the dynamic of ethnopoetics, as some of us came to speak of it during the second great wave of experimental twentieth-century modernism from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s.
		I had already introduced the term ethnopoetics in the second issue of George Quasha's magazine Stony Brook and had met the anthropologist and poet Stanley Diamond and the ethnomusicologist David McAllister, who would soon lead me into the most experimental translations of oral poetry I would ever be involved in.
		It was while preparing my second ethnopoetic gathering, Shaking the Pumpkin, that I received a packet from Dennis Tedlock including his translation - I would later call it his total translation - of a Zuni Indian [oral] narrative called The Boy and the Deer.
	www.epc.buffalo.edu /authors/rothenberg/ethnopoetics.html (1771 words)

	ETHNOPOETICS AT THE MILLENNIUM
		This was in fact the dynamic of ethnopoetics, as some of us came to speak of it during the second great wave of experimental twentieth-century modernism from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s.
		I had already introduced the term ethnopoetics in the second issue of George Quasha's magazine Stony Brook and had met the anthropologist and poet Stanley Diamond and the ethnomusicologist David McAllister, who would soon lead me into the most experimental translations of oral poetry I would ever be involved in.
		It was while preparing my second ethnopoetic gathering, Shaking the Pumpkin, that I received a packet from Dennis Tedlock including his translation - I would later call it his total translation - of a Zuni Indian [oral] narrative called The Boy and the Deer.
	epc.buffalo.edu /authors/rothenberg/ethnopoetics.html (1771 words)

	Ethnopoetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ethnopoetics is a decentered poetics, an attempt to hear and read the poetries of distant others, outside the Western tradition as we know it now.
		Ethnopoetics does not merely contrast the poetics of "ethnics" with just plain poetics, but implies that any poetics is always an ethnopoetics.
		Ethnopoetics remains open to the creative side of performance, valuing features that may be rare or even unique to a particular artist or occasion.
	epc.buffalo.edu /authors/tedlock/syllabi/ethnopoetics.html (462 words)

	Ethnpoetics - Companion to 20th C Poetry
		Ethnopoetics has come to broadly designate writing that reflects: heightened awareness of the artfulness of oral and traditional poetries and the ways in which diverse verbal arts illuminate world cultures; innovative theorizing and practice of transcription/translation.
		Ethnopoetics allows Waldman to craft poems that convey an appropriately chant-like power not possible using either traditional English prosody (rhyme and meter) or the looser, speech-oriented patterns of free verse.
		As motto for ethnopoetics in all its facets, the first words of Rothenberg's first anthology--"Primitive means Complex"--serve as a simple measure of its continued influence.
	www.chss.iup.edu /sherwood/Courses/ENGL766F05/Docs/Sherwood-Ethnopoetics-Companion-Web.htm (882 words)

	\|\|\| Granary Books :: A Book of the Book \|\| Jerome Rothenberg & Steven Clay \|\|\|
		This was the start of my ethnopoetics as such, but even within that there were spaces, inevitably, in which the source poems were themselves in written form—the Egyptian Book of the Dead, say, or the Chinese Book of Changes, among the works that were the most immediately familiar.
		In that sense, as Eric clearly knew, the book (taken as the "scene," the place in which the writing comes together) was the hidden side of my ethnopoetics, as the city was (for me) the scene of the "new wilderness" named as my project of that time.
		A deeper level of our ethnopoetics was of course its exploration of a poetry imbedded within the life of a people or community &, through its traditional poets as well as its modernist experimenters, a poetry that served as a primary vehicle toward the experiencing of an expanding range of actual & possible realities.
	www.granarybooks.com /books/book_of_the_book/rothenberg.html (2638 words)

	Jacket # 6 - Shamoon Zamir: review of "Scandals in the House of Birds", by Nathaniel Tarn
		While ethnopoetics may have lost the intensity and drive that one associates with the term 'movement' by the second half of the 1980s, it is by no means a dead project.
		Ethnopoetics now represents a large body of work, built up over more than two decades now, in which notions of the primitive, the comparison of cross-cultural poetics, the problems of translation, the representation of performance, and the practice of collaborative textual work have been investigated by both poets and anthropologists.
		One aspect of ethnopoetics which is important for an ethnocritical practice and for any considerations of contemporary cross-cultural dialogue is what David Murray identifies as "the breaking away from the closed nature of the literary text" through a focus on performance rather than the lyric voice.
	jacketmagazine.com /06/zamir-rev-tarn.html (5677 words)

	Jerome Rothenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jerome Rothenberg (born 1931) is an American poet and editor who is noted for his work in ethnopoetics.
		Rothenberg was born in New York City and attended the City College of New York, graduating in 1952.
		He co-edited Alcheringa, the first ever magazine of ethnopoetics and edited further anthologies, including Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas (1972), a number of collections of Jewish poetry and Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward An Ethnopoetics, co-edited with Diane Rothenberg.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jerome_Rothenberg (368 words)

	E T H N O P O E T I C S :: V I S U A L S
		While the initial focus of ethnopoetics was on orality and performance, the discourse turned as well to the visible aspects of language — writing and inscription — both as a persistent contemporary concern and as an often unacknowledged kingpin of a revitalized and expanded ethnopoetics.
		But to grasp the actual possibilities of writing (as with any other form of language or of culture), it is necessary to know it in all its manifestations — new and old.
		It is our growing belief (more apparent now than at the start of the ethnopoetics project) that the cultural dichotomies between writing and speech — the "written" and the "oral" — disappear the closer we get to the source.
	www.ubu.com /ethno/visuals.html (274 words)

	Ethnopoetics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ethnopoetics refers to poetic traditions which are typically seen as tribal or otherwise ethnic by the West (or indeed between any ethnoculturally different peoples).
		Within the field of linguistics, it refers to the study of linguistic use and structure in oral narration, including poetry, prose narratives, such as folk tales, ceremonial speech and other forms of extended utterances.
		Studies in Native American literature (No. 1); University of Pennsylvania publications in conduct and communication.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ethnopoetics (199 words)

	diss page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The second is the organization of the coreferent strings of text, termed “verses,” that result from this switch-reference marking system into larger structures by the ethnopoetics of the discourse.
		Two example texts, representing different narrative genres, are analyzed, and an approach to ethnopoetics based on that of Dell Hymes is developed.
		Verse constituency in scenes is found to be based upon a recurrent numerical principle of two, four, and seven, which is deeply rooted in Lakhota culture.
	linguistics.buffalo.edu /ssila/dissertations/inddiss/d261.htm (134 words)

	Drunken Boat \| FALL/WINTER 2001-2002
		However, when we first began preparing this issue we were a little hesitant to use the term ethnopoetics, because the term seemed to have a subliminal connotation of being somehow more, or less, or other, than poetics itself.
		Our intention was to enlarge the scope of what an ethnopoetics could be by showing that cultures are permeable enough that to set off work as exclusively representative of one particular tribe is a near impossible task.
		Literally then, and in a way we hope this issue demonstrates, ethnopoetics is not separatist, not reflective of some narrow stratum of non-Western poetry, but rather is a maker, a joiner, of people.
	www.drunkenboat.com /db3/statement.html (725 words)

	Touch - ESSAYS 2002 Jerome Rothenberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Denis Tedlock explains the term, ‘Ethnopoetics originated among poets with an interest in anthropology and linguistics and among anthropologists and linguists with an interest in poetry, such as David Antin, Stanley Diamond, Dell Hymes, Jerome Rothenberg, Gary Snyder, Nathaniel Tarn (E. Michael Mendelson), and myself.
		This anthology follows the ethnopoetic ones in seeking to explore the ‘poetry-art intersections in which conventional boundaries between arts break down’ and ‘break across the very boundaries and definitions of self and nation.
		Rothenberg states that it was ‘a convergence of poets and scholars toward a re-imagining of poetry based on its actual development and presence in the life of many different peoples and cultures.
	home.primus.com.au /jbandbr/Touch%20-%202002%20essays%20Jerome%20Rothenberg.htm (1309 words)

	U B U W E B :: E T H N O P O E T I C S (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In my own work I was able to bring some of these lines together in gatherings of the 1960s and 1970s like Technicians of the Sacred and Shaking the Pumpkin, as well as in the magazine Alcheringa that I co-edited for several years with Dennis Tedlock.
		The name that we gave this enterprise, as it applied to the world’s deep cultures – those surviving in situ as well as those that had vanished except for transcriptions in books or recordings from earlier decades – was ethnopoetics.
		In the present Ubuweb collection of ethnopoetic openings, it’s our intention to build a sampler of what we take to be the second great breakthrough of the modernist poetry project.
	www.ubu.com /ethno (353 words)

	Oral tradition and the Internet
		The ethnopoetic credo is clear: avoid reducing the multi-dimensional event to a one-dimensional, static, silent object.
		When a “reader” reperforms an ethnopoetically coded representation, whether silently and alone or aloud in a group, he or she comes that much closer to the original performance and its expressive dynamism.
		According to the etymology of “ethnopoetics,” then, we’re called upon to give each oral tradition its due, to understand each one on its own terms (as a species) as well as part of a larger collective (the genus).
	otandit.blogspot.com (6321 words)

	Untitled Document
		This was the start of my ethnopoetics as such, but even within that there were spaces, inevitably, in which the source poems were themselves in written form - the Egyptian Book of the Dead, say, or the Chinese Book of Changes, among the works that were the most immediately familiar.
		With that, as with the book from which we took the conference's name, the idea was not simply to recapitulate what had been said before, but to bring the discourse on ethnopoetics into areas from which it seemed to have been set apart.
		It is our growing belief (more apparent now than at the start of the ethnopoetics project) that the cultural dichotomies between writing and speech - the "written" and the "oral" - disappear the closer we get to the source.
	www.albany.edu /mottram/emmag1jr.html (2205 words)

	Ethnopoetics
		It may also refer to the act of hearing poetries of perceived distant people, often this distance is in terms of time.
		This page was last modified 08:02, 26 Apr 2005.
		The article about Ethnopoetics contains information related to Ethnopoetics and Bibliography.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Ethnopoetics (199 words)

	IngentaConnect Applied ethnopoetics
		Ethnopoetics is a form of narrative analysis designed, initially, for the analysis of folk stories and based on an ethnographic performance-based understanding of narrative emphasizing that meaning is an effect of performance.
		I argue that ethnopoetics could be productively applied to data in which different systems of meaning-making meet — a condition that defines many important service-providing systems in globalizing contexts.
		Asylum applications in Western Europe are a case in point, and examples will be used from that domain, but the potential usefulness of such an applied ethnopoetics stretches into many other types of service encounters in which crosscultural storytelling is crucial.
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/jbp/nari/2006/00000016/00000001/art00022 (208 words)

	North American Centre for Interdisciplinary Poetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Wrote Wittgenstein, as a philosopher of science and language often not far from a poetics: “Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us” (1958: 27).
		It is in this sense a realization of the ideogrammatic vision of a Fenollosa-”a splendid flash of concrete poetry” (but an ideogrammatic language truly in motion and, like oral poetry, truly inseparable from its realization in performance).
		Ethnopoetic analogues-for those who would care to check them out-include Hindu and Tantric mudras, Plains Indian and Australian Aborigine sign languages, and Ejagham “action writing” (a history of human gesture languages that would enrich our sense of poetry and language, should we set our minds to it.)
	nacip.net /modules.php?name=News&new_topic=3 (1194 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - A Brief Guide to Ethnopoetics
		Before Rothenberg's integral anthology, Technicians of the Sacred (1968), some European poets (Tristan Tzara, Benjamin Peret, Antonin Artaud) had begun to explore oral poetics in Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas, not to mention Ezra Pound's concentration on the poetries of China.
		In the contemporary scene, Ethnopoetics' major figures include Rothenberg, Tedlock, Gary Snyder, Stanley Diamond, and others.
		For more information, visit UbuWeb: Ethnopoetics, a web site curated by Rothenberg, and read "Ethnopoetics at the Millennium: A Talk for the Modern Language Association," a speech given by Rothenberg in 1994.
	www.poets.org /viewmedia.php/prmMID/5653 (130 words)

	Dialogic: UBU Web: Ethnopoetics
		In my own work I was able to bring some of these lines together in gatherings of the 1960s and 1970s like Technicians of the Sacred and Shaking the Pumpkin, as well as in the magazine Alcheringa that I co-edited for several years with Dennis Tedlock.
		The name that we gave this enterprise, as it applied to the world’s deep cultures – those surviving in situ as well as those that had vanished except for transcriptions in books or recordings from earlier decades – was ethnopoetics.
		In the present Ubuweb collection of ethnopoetic openings, it’s our intention to build a sampler of what we take to be the second great breakthrough of the modernist poetry project.
	dialogic.blogspot.com /2004/01/ubu-web-ethnopoetics.html (624 words)

	IUP English Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		An informal movement in poetry and scholarship, Ethnopoetics refers, narrowly, to collaborations among poets, anthropologists, linguists, and literary scholars during the late 1960s and 1970s.
		As motto for ethnopoetics in all its facets, Stanley Diamond's maxim--"Primitive means Complex"—can serve as a simple measure of its continued influence.
		They may work with the central Ethnopoetics concern—the gap between cultural performance and written text—and embark on projects re-presenting select oral performances (translating, transcribing, and analyzing), thereby constructing new and creative translations that reflect their appreciation of the form, content, and cultural context of oral literatures.
	www.english.iup.edu /graduate/office/lc/fall2005courses/766.htm (448 words)

	Jacket 16 - Ram Devineni interviews Ravi Shankar, editor of Drunken Boat
		Put simply, ethnopoetics is a cultivated receptivity to poetry outside of the Western tradition (though some may say that all poetics is ethnopoetics, coming, as it does, from within the sociohistorical consciousness of the people who produce it).
		Ethnopoetics seems to me anything outside of the normative realm, works that are expressive and as yet untamed, unrecognized.
		The way he spoke of poetry was the way a raccoon might speak of crayfish, as something delectable and nutritive and necessary for his existence in the hard city.
	jacketmagazine.com /16/dev-iv-shank.html (3403 words)

	Center for Studies in Oral Tradition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Seeks then to understand, largely through ethnopoetic techniques, the native aesthetics of the oral folk tradition that spawned the text of the Kalevala and thereby to achieve a richer, more nuanced understanding of both the literary work and its multivocal oral background.
		Traces the development of the field of ethnopoetics, with emphasis laid upon the collaborative nature of ethnopoetic research, the importance of the textual presentation of oral performance, and the inherent worth of oral performance/communication.
		He summarizes three recent movements in folklore, all concerned with the issue of creating texts faithful to an oral performance: oral-formulaic theory; ethnopoetics and the ethnography of speaking; and the performance approach.
	www.oraltradition.org /hrop/bibliography.php (16203 words)

	LATEX/poep.tex (htmlized)
		What we are witnessing in the world today is an unparalleled waterfall of destruction of a diversity of human cultures; plant species; animal species; of the richness of the biosphere and the millions of years of organic evolution that have gone into it.
		In a sense ethnopoetics is like some field of zoology that is studying disappearing species.
		The next level is ``ethnopoetics'' and that is, what we do when we start going into other peoples' cultures and bringing back their poems and publishing them in our magazines?
	angg.twu.net /LATEX/poep.tex.html (5481 words)

	Drunken Boat \| Jerome Rothenberg
		A theatrical version of his book, Poland/1931, by Hanon Reznikov and the Living Theater, appeared on the NewYork stage in April 1988, and a version of Khurbn (in collaboration with composer Charlie Morrow and Japanese novelist Makoto Oda) was produced by the Bread & Puppet Theater in 1995.
		Rothenberg was the editor/publisher of Hawk's Well Press in the early 1960s and of four poetry magazines since then: Poems from the Floating World, some/thing (with David Antin), Alcheringa: Ethnopoetics ("a first magazine of the world's tribal poetries"), and New Wilderness Letter (a magazine of poetics across the spectrum of the arts).
		Symposium of the Whole, an anthology of writings on ethnopoetics co- edited with Diane Rothenberg, was published by the University of California Press in 1983, and revised editions of Technicians of the Sacred and Shaking the Pumpkin appeared in 1985 and 1986.
	www.drunkenboat.com /db3/rothenberg/rothenberg.html (645 words)

	Learn more about Poetry of the United States in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		These poets sought to combine a contemporary spoken idiom with inventive formal experiment.
		Jerome Rothenberg (born 1931) is well-known for his work in ethnopoetics, but he was also the coiner of the term "deep image".
		Deep image poetry is inspired by the symbolist theory of correspondences.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/po/poetry_of_the_united_states.html (1978 words)

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