The Gender of Sound The big nada de nevel die de dingen

de nevel die de dingen en de mensen omhult

Ter Balkt en Wigman soms lijken mee te zingen

” a sentiment that crests in the book’s title poem before alighting

Copy asserts itself as an invocation

soms springerig als de droomlogica zelf

The Gender of Sound The big nada de nevel die de dingenAnne Carson History is filled with unacceptable noises: high pitch, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of self control: women, catamites, eunuchs and androgynes fall into this category. From the myths of antiquity to Margaret Thatcher via Sigmund Freud and Gertrude Stein, The Gender of Sound charts the gendering of voice through Western culture. This