%0 Journal Article %T The Performance of Poeticity: Stage Fright and Text Anxiety in Dutch Performance Poetry since the 1960s %A Gaston Franssen %J Authorship %D 2012 %I Ghent University %X The relation between performance poetry and poetry criticism, as the latter is generally practiced in newspapers and journals, appears to be strained. This is the result of a clash between two different performance traditions: on the one hand, a tradition that goes back to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century conventions of poetry declamation or recitation; and on the other hand, a tradition based on performance experiments carried out by avant-garde movements during the first half of the twentieth-century. This article charts the different sets of expectations associated with these traditions by analyzing how these expectations became manifest during the Dutch poetry event ¡®Po zie in Carr¨¦¡¯ (Febraury 28th, 1966). As will become clear, individual authorship, textual unity, and poetic significance play important, yet very different roles in these two traditions. Furthermore, I put forward an alternative approach to the issue at hand, by focusing on one particular participant in ¡®Po zie in Carr¨¦,¡¯ Johnny van Doorn (1944-1991). Thus, this article aims to contribute to a historically aware and more constructive analysis of performance poetry. %K performance %K Dutch poetry %K authorship %K poetry and criticism %K Po zie in Carr¨¦ %U http://ojs.ugent.be/authorship/article/view/766/761