...Ewan James Jones [email protected] Vincent Barletta , Rhythm: Form and Dispossession . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2020 . 216 pp. Ben Glaser , Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2020...

..., dates, and numbers, which are incorrect with the regularity of a metronome—but knowing also that testimony contains extraordinary riches: the encounter with the human voice that traversed history and, in oblique fashion, not factual truth but the more subtle and also indispensable truth of an epoch...

... West African Preferences Rhythm isochrony / matchstress asymmetry / stress-mismatch Phrasing ictic / tactical pulses responsorial / phrasal pulses Movement metronomic / monorhythmic dynamic / polyrhythmic Table 3 Relative insistence of four-beat and five-beat lines in African American and Anglo...

... and cross diagonally, strictly avoiding the center, which is marked as a kind of black hole. Quadrat II is shot in black and white, the movement much slower, the sound the faint ticking of an almost inaudible metronome. The effect is an impression of almost endless repetition (a structural variant...