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Great poetry sounds great in any interested reader's voice".
"Poetry, for me, is written with the poet's voice and intended for the reader's voice," he said.
"Poetry has an intimacy because it is in the reader's voice, in one person's breath," Mr. Pinsky said, echoing Mr. Collins.
That is, the medium for a poem is the reader's breath, any reader's voice -- not necessarily the voice of a wonderful performer, or of the poet.
When I think of how deep down a good audiobook reader's voice can go as it bores into the spirit, I always think of the Tartars in Philip Pullman's "Golden Compass".
Admittedly, we're sometimes a bit taken aback by the note of triumph in a reader's voice when he or she calls to point out that -- to cite one recent example -- an Op-Ed article about events that occurred in 1955 referred to the United States Postal Service when back then it was called the United States Post Office Department.
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Although a first-person animal narrator asks a lot of the reader, Joey's voice — unsentimental and brave under fire — amplifies the emotional impact of the story.
"Hi, I wanted to make sure you're open, because I need to use the microfilm reader," a woman's voice said.
Middlemarch is not to everyone's taste: some readers find Eliot's voice tiresomely bossy, forever interjecting an edifying moral exemplum.
When Newman writes--echoing T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land, who is himself echoing Shalespeare's Ophelia-- ah, ladies, good night, good night ladies," knowing readers hear Plath's voice, serving as the snare drum, signaling Newman's dramatic finale.
Such a figure begins as the reader's surrogate, the voice of scepticism.
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