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Rhapsodomancy
Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff
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Description for Rhapsodomancy
Paperback. Exploring the phonic alphabets of shorthand and Unifon as image, Rhapsodomancy playfully interrogates the relationship between voice and visual poetry. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
Reading is slow, and writing is slower. Words are old-fashioned. Why not consider the communication of the future? In 1837, Sir Isaac Pitman began a sixty-year obsession with producing a system of Shorthand that accurately and swiftly captures voice as evidence of the mind's movements. In the 1950s, John Malone developed Unifon, a forty-character phonetic alphabet intended for international communication by the airline industry. Both projects reached for artful utility, and both have largely been forgotten. In Rhapsodomancy, kevin mcpherson eckhoff remembers them. Exploring these two phonic alphabets as image, these poems playfully interrogate the relationship between voice and ... Read more
Reading is slow, and writing is slower. Words are old-fashioned. Why not consider the communication of the future? In 1837, Sir Isaac Pitman began a sixty-year obsession with producing a system of Shorthand that accurately and swiftly captures voice as evidence of the mind's movements. In the 1950s, John Malone developed Unifon, a forty-character phonetic alphabet intended for international communication by the airline industry. Both projects reached for artful utility, and both have largely been forgotten. In Rhapsodomancy, kevin mcpherson eckhoff remembers them. Exploring these two phonic alphabets as image, these poems playfully interrogate the relationship between voice and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
88
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552452318
SKU
V9781552452318
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Ref
99-15
About Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff
kevin mcpherson eckhoff's visual poetry has appeared in the anthology Boredom Fighters (Tightrope Books) and in such magazines as dandelion and filling Station. A winner of the Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award, he studied English literature at the University of Calgary. He recently traded his life for a house in Armstrong, British Columbia, and a job teaching literature at Okanagan College. ... Read more
Reviews for Rhapsodomancy
'A feast for the eyes (and mind).'
Broken Pencil 'Lovely, punny, & slyly alliterative ... A visual delight.'
Eclectic Ruckus 'Eckhoff's work travels the bumpy road between voice and words and visual poetry
offering a wild, energetic and defiantly unique strain of experimental verse.'
Calgary Herald
Broken Pencil 'Lovely, punny, & slyly alliterative ... A visual delight.'
Eclectic Ruckus 'Eckhoff's work travels the bumpy road between voice and words and visual poetry
offering a wild, energetic and defiantly unique strain of experimental verse.'
Calgary Herald