Listening to Reading

Stephen Ratcliffe is Associate Professor of English at Mills College. He is the author of several books, including SOUND/ (system); Mallarme: poem in prose; and Sculpture.

"An important work, Listening to Reading manages both to explore texts that enact a more engaged reader response even as the manuscript itself enacts such a response. The discussion of difficult, ostensibly 'inaccessible' poetries cries out for a wider audience, and could have far-reaching impact on our general understanding of critical theory and practice." — Joe Amato, author of Bookend: Anatomies of a Virtual Self"The book's crossing of genres is innovative: a combination of critical and creative styles, of explanation and illustration." — Krzysztof Ziarek, author of Inflected Language: Toward a Hermeneutics of Nearness"The book is, in the end, more than interesting to read: it is inspiring." — Jed Rasula, Queen's University

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments ...sound...shape...meaning... Con( )Text The Asymptote of Elsewhere [Echoes] Writing [Echoes] Writing Notes on Sound Memo/ Re: Reading Stein Reading (Cage) Silence Writing/Re: Memory [Signature] Grenier's "Scrawl" Mallarme: poem in prose Listening to Reading Sound (Shape) as Thought Eigner's "Scores" Idea's Mirror Utter Mimesis Writing A Reading Cracking the Code Reading Sun Supernatural Duet Knowledge Axis of Simultaneities The Landscapes (Body) of the Poem Notes Index