Teeth, tongue, lips, jaw

Teeth, Tongue, Lips, Jaw offers to its likely readers---student poets---a moral imperative: perform or die. The project report argues for the revitalization of poetry in the public space through a movement of poetry from the page to stage.; Vocal performance is valorized as the most authentic mode of communicating poetry, whose original source is the human body: the body that poetry must reclaim. An analysis of the detriments that print culture and poststructuralist theory have inflicted upon the experience of poetry precedes a discussion of commonly seen reading styles, the most desirable qualities of a vocal poetry performance, and composition and performance methods using techniques of voice.; The accompanying poems, presented only as an audio recording, are intended to exemplify the vocal element of the vivified poetry performance as represented in the project report.