{"product_id":"humanophone","title":"Humanophone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Janet Holmes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e Humanophone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2001-09-01\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e The poetry in Humanophone, the third volume from award-winning poet Janet Holmes, celebrates composers and creators such as Harry Partch, Raymond Scott, Leon Theremin, and George Ives, who had to invent new instruments to capture the music heard in their \"mind's ear.\" Taking its title from a George Ives invention-an instrument made from a group of humans, each of whom sings a single note, arrayed like a xylophone-Humanophone appears on its surface to be about music. But its real subject is the artist's creative dilemma-how to deliver a new idea, whether it be a song or a poem, through existing media.\u003cbr\u003eHolmes works language into a variety of forms both familiar-syllabics, couplets, villanelles, sonnets-and engagingly new. With everything from kumquats to abandoned wedding pictures, Clara Bow to Bill Robinson, Keats's belle dame to Dante's Francesca, feng shui to a recipe for octopus, Humanophone celebrates how the body shapes art from the world it is given.\u003cbr\u003eIn Humanophone, Holmes not only chronicles events such as Harry Partch's transformation of glass chemical containers from the Berkeley Radiation Lab into the melodious and beautiful Cloud-Chamber Bowls, but also traces a playful path through the familiar, as a trombone's upwards glissando becomes \"a backwards pratfall\/in brass.\" Engaging a broad array of subjects, Holmes's poetry is as delightful as it is thoughtful, as simple as it is complex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268030551\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e Height: 8.99 Inches, Length: 6.03 Inches, Weight: 0.34 Pounds, Width: 0.79 Inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e en\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Janet Holmes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53112030855475,"sku":"9780268030551","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/3636\/7411\/files\/9780268030551.jpg?v=1772756844","url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/humanophone","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}