Work
The Mouth, part I
Maker é boylan · Work date 2026 · Medium telephone · Role work · Experienced by the compiler 2026-06-21 at 20:45
Description
A poem, requiring minimal participation. Partly set in 1974: a person named Harper is sending poems and messages forward into the future.
Source. No published description found.
CAMEO WOOD'S OWN ACCOUNT. No published description exists; e boylan's site carries no work of this title.
Anatomy
Thirteen criteria after Lauren R. Beck. Each carries a source grade: M maker-confirmed, P published, F first-hand, I inferred by the compiler, ? not yet established. Definitions are on the anatomy page.
- Participants listen through headphonesnoI
Delivered by telephone; a handset is not headphones and the account mentions none.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
A phone poem with no instruction to change location recorded in the account.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesI
The work is a poem delivered over the phone, so the sound device is the work.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI
The account records no required site, circumstance or language; 1974 is a period setting.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
The 1974 framing is a period setting, which the rubric excludes, and no real place is named.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
A phone poem presupposes a phone, not city surroundings.
- Created as an artwork other than theateryesI
The account describes the work as "a poem," a literary rather than theatrical form, though the maker's own framing is unrecorded.
- Intended to be understood as theaterunknown?
No published listing exists and the account records no theatrical vocabulary.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
The account does not address the participant's surroundings.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participateyesI
The account says it requires "minimal participation" — minimal but not none.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesI
A phone poem requiring participation reads as delivered by a person on the line, but the account does not state it.
- Involves game playnoI
A poem with no rules, objective or resolution state.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
The account mentions no physical materials either way.
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