These essays extend an ongoing conversation on dialogic qualities of poetry by positing various foundations, practices, and purposes of poetic dialogism. The authors enrich and diversify the theoretical discourse on dialogic poetry and connect it to fertile critical fields like ethnic studies, translation studies, and ethics and literature.

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Hearing Over; Mara Scanlon 1. Dialogism and Monologism in 'Song of Myself'; Stephen Pierson 2. Aesthetic Activity in Sir Thomas Wyatt's Penitential Psalms; Chad Engbers 3. Lyric Ventriloquism and the Dialogic Translations of Pasternak, Mandelstam and Celan; Tom Dolack 4. Robert Lowell's 'common novel plot': Names, Naming, and Polyphony in The Dolphin; Geoffrey Lindsay 5. Poetic Address and Intimate Reading: The Offered Hand; William Waters 6. Hasidim in Poetry: Dialogical Poetics of Encounter in Denise Levertov's The Jacob's Ladder; Temple Cone 7. Reading the Process: Stuart Hall, TV News, Heteroglossia, and Poetry; James D. Sullivan 8. Dialogic Poetry as Emancipatory Technology: Ventriloquy and Voiceovers in the Rhythmic Junctures of Harryette Mullen's Muse & Drudge; Andrea Witzke Slot 9. Zehra Çirak and the Aporia of Dialogism; Erin Trapp Index