How might we delimit the domain of poetics in the digital present? Taking the audio archives of poetry recordings as our primary object, we develop bi-modal approaches to poetics.

The philosophers should be busy in general in drawing boundary lines and especially in defining accurate limits between poetry and ordinary eloquence. The difference is, to be sure, only a matter of degree; but in the relegation of things to one side or the other it requires, we think, no less capable a geometer than did the frontiers of the Phrygians and the Mysians.
~ Alexander Baumgarten 1

Drucker's sketch of inflection in network graphs
Figure 1: Drucker’s sketch of inflection in network graphs. 2

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Footnotes

  1. Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Reflections on Poetry, trans. Karl Aschenbrenner and William B. Holther (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1954), 79, §117. ↩

  2. Sun-Ah Jun, “Prosodic Typology: By Prominence Type, Word Prosody, and Macro-Rhythm” in Prosodic Typology II: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing, ed. Sun-Ah Jun (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014), 525. ↩