Document Type
Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
As a poet obsessed with sound, as well as one with a hearing loss, in the past couple years I wrote two series of works that invoke sound, though one could say that I didn’t dive into them per se thinking about sound. How does that sound? Or just because I have a hearing loss, as some people sometimes infer. (Though it is partly so.) When asked to think about the origins of these works, or how they exist in the world, or how they exist at all, I started to ruminate on it and it truly felt like being pulled under the sound barrier of the deep end that you were not supposed to go into as a little kid. It was like trying to dive deep below a decibel you can hear— how to get to the bottom of how poems about how sound occurs were written? Finally it is starting to come to me and here’s the sounds of those thoughts...
Repository Citation
Gray, Stephanie. "My Own Private Ontology for a Poetics of Sound: I Thought You Said It Was Sound / How Does That Sound." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 13, no. 1, 2013, pp. 1–5. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol13/iss1/11