“The Wheel Never stop”: Poetry in Performance as “SOP DOLL!” (published April 3, 2009)

Laura Hinton begins her piece on Lee Ann Brown’s and Tony Torn’s poet’s theater chapbook (Mermaid Tenement Press 2008) and performance:

Japanese Noh may be a stylistic and ritualistic theater associated with abstraction and heavy poetic allusion. But its precise, many-centuries-old performance methods -- however classical to our ear and eye -- developed first through early Japanese folk tales, those whose primary appeal was to popular audiences.

Lee Ann Brown and Tony Torn have drawn upon that folkloric tradition within Noh theater, re-awakening it through a different literary engine: the American Appalachian “Jack Tale”…

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