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Performing Ketjak: The Theater of the Observed
- Postmodern Culture
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 20, Number 1, September 2009
- 10.1353/pmc.2009.a403821
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay takes as its focus Ron Silliman's 1978 marathon street-side reading of his long poem Ketjak in San Francisco, and examines the "special effects" of a poet's theatre when it is extended beyond the physical and ideological boundaries of the traditional, contemporary poetry reading.