blert
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2006
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Having stuttered all my life, blert poetically formulates my intimate knowledge of the stutter's impact on speech, language and sound. While 55 million people are known to stutter worldwide, no one has yet attempted an intensive engagement of the stutter through poetry. Many poets such as Phillip Larkin and Lewis Carroll stuttered all their lives and yet declined to textually or personally engage the stutter within their works. Other literary texts, mostly children's stories and juvenilia, have only addressed the stutter in an anecdotal manner. blert develops the page into an engaging phonetic and visceral experience of what it is, for me, to stutter. A critical introduction situates the collection in the context ofrelevant linguistic and poetic theories such as Charles Olson's notion of the breath line and Steve McCaffery's ideas on sound poetry.
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Bibliography: p. 22-25
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Scott, J. (2006). blert (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/502