This article analyzes (and skewers) that lilting steamroller tone of voice that so many poets use when reciting their work.
During this banter the poet uses a slightly performative but mostly natural voice. It’s the voice they’d use to introduce you to their grandmother. Then they read the title of their first poem and launch into the first line. But now their voice is different. It’s as if at some point between the last breath of banter and the first breath of poem a fairy has twinkled by and dumped onto the poet’s tongue a bag of magical dust, which for some reason forces the poet to adopt a precious, lilting cadence, to end every other line on a down-note, and to introduce, pauses, within sentences, where pauses, need not go. —City Arts.
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RT @DennisJerz: Stop Using ‘Poet Voice’: (That lilting steamroller tone that so many poets use when reciting their work.) http://t.co/HaRa…
@DennisJerz OMG yes. Cory Doctorow has read his own entire -novels- in that voice on MP3. It just makes me want to slap him.