Interart and Intermediality of Jayne Cortez's Performance Poetry
Deeply embedded in jazz music,Cortez's poetry imitates African musical elements,such as ring shout,variations,riffs,etc.,giving musicality and performativity to poetry to achieve interart and intermediality reference.She transforms and produces poetry by making records and CDs in the form of music and reading aloud/chanting,thus achieving the media transfer of poetic texts.Cortez combines vocal,music,and instruments in live performances with the Firespitters Band in the form of a mini-theatre to express the meaning of poetry.Her public poetry reading and live performance emphasize improvisation,the power of sound,and inflection,restoring the oral and auditory effects obscured by printed poetry while fully en-gaging the audience's sensory and emotional experiences.The poet interacts with the audience and music to create a theatrical effect.Multiple media such as music,electronics,and digital media technology collectively influence Cortez's poetry creation,reading,and performance,participating in the construction of poetic aesthetics,leading her poetry from singular art to interart,and from single medium to intermedia.In light of interart poetics and intermediality theory,this paper will explore how Cortez's performance poetry integrates text,music,and live performance to convey the meaning of poetry in a unique and innovative way.The study of interart and intermediality of Cortez's performance poetry is conducive to probing into her poetic construction and practice as well as her important contribution to contemporary experi-mental American poetics.
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