Acknowledgements
Introduction: On the Gradual Production of Thoughts Whilst Speaking
Part I Revising towards Spontaneity
1. We Do Not Know What We Are Going to Say until We Have Said It
2. “That’s the Illusion You’re Supposed to Get”
3. Scepticisms
Part II Two Histories of Sudden Verse
4. Romantic Revision and Its Others
5. The Iliad and The Odyssey Were Rapidly Composed
6. The Desk as Stage
7. Oral Verse in Performance
Part III Writing Is Speaking
8. Not-Quite Speech
9. Writing as “Oral Dictated”
10. Consciousness as a Window of Three Seconds
11. Song
Part IV Suddenness and Art
12. The Split in the Archive
13. “Great Goblets of Magnolialight”
References
Index
About the Author