Pointing and Breathing is a new critical anthology that takes a different approach to exploring these questions: What is poetry? What defines sound?
Featuring a range of contemporary artists, many of whom work across different media and genres, Sign & Breath offers the reader a one-page spread in any literary genre—prose, fiction, poetry, spoken word, hybrid forms, and song—across diverse traditions.Instead of defining poetry as a literary genre with specific rules, traditions, customs, and styles, this book highlights poetry as a faculty present in all written and spoken arts. The book introduces readers to a text followed by a discussion with the author about the creative process, its connection to creative heritage, and defining voice through its practice.This anthology contributes to the dialogue between literary genres, reformulating our understanding of poetry as an aesthetic experience of language. Through one page that can be used in any literary genre, “A Sign and a Breath” presents a new and comprehensive perspective on poetry, while two questions remain: Do we have a clearer understanding of what defines poetry? Do we have a clearer understanding of sound?
