Listening in Many Publics
Ritchie, Jay Listening in Many Publics comprises three long poems on the subject of sound, and of sound’s listening subjects: a crown of sonnets, a serial poem in 40 parts operating through fracture and dissonance, and a narrative journey to an underworld where words decay into aurality. Signifying both sound and air, aurality describes that which we can attune ourselves to hear and the medium through which these vibrations travel: both what and how. Plura...