Annotated Bibliography
Elbow, Peter, ed. Landmark Essays on Voice and Writing. Mahway, NJ: Hermagoras Press, 1994.
An excellent source book for ideas about voice in literature, containing major statements by a range of teachers and theorists. The introduction provides a useful overview of the subject.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Signifying Monkey. New York: Oxford UP, 1988.
Contains interesting analyses of voice and the idea of double voicings in African-American writing.
Gilligan, Carol. In a Different Voice. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993.
A general-interest discussion of the feminine voice (used metaphorically and non-metaphorically).
Kerby, Anthony Paul. Narrative and the Self. Indiana University Press, 1991.
This book is about the relationship between language and the person. It speaks to various ways in which narrative relates to the self.
Koch, Kenneth. I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing to Old People. Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 1997.
This book chronicles Kenneth Koch's time teaching senior citizens poetry. These seniors were, in most cases, unable to write their own words and had no prior relationship with poetry. Through many creative exercises, Koch and the seniors create beautiful music together on various subjects.
Noppe-Brandon, Gail. Find Your Voice: A Methodology for Enhancing Literacy Through Re-Writing and Re-Acting. Heineman, 2004.
An outline of methods to help students communicate better with audiences. It can be used by teachers of all subjects.
Osakwe, Mabel. Poetrymate: A Guide to Poetry Teaching and Learning for Junior Secondary Schools. Fourth Dimension, 1996.
Intended for use with middle school students, this guide to teaching poetry outlines what poetry is, how it can be created, and its uses. This book is especially appropriate for English Language Learners and elementary students.
Pinsky, Robert. Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2002.
This brief and clearly written essay aims to "consider the voice of poetry—emphasizing its literal or actual 'voice'—within the culture of American democracy, and the tensions of pluralism." It concludes that "[p]oetry's voice participates in that society and culture, but by its nature also resists them."
Statman, Mark. Listerner in the Snow: The Practice and Teaching of Poetry. New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 2000.
This book brings together the practice of poetry and the teaching of poetry. Conceptions of poetry are most often presented as absolutes; in showing where his ideas come from, along with giving samples of his own poems and stories, Statman is stepping out from behind the screen of poetry wisdom and showing himself as just what he is: a particular individual with his own particular and sometime idiosyncratic ideas about poetry and about life.
Wolfram, Walt and others. Dialects in Schools and Communities. London: Laurence Erlbaum, 1999.
Addresses the natural interest and educational concern about dialects by considering some of the major issues that confront educational practitioners.
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