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Critical facsimile edition making crucial modernist texts available for the first time since 1931 This new edition of Bob Brown's groundbreaking collection of modernist writing experiments has been out of print since 1931, when Brown's Roving Eye Press originally published it. Only a few copies exist in archives today. The contributors include major modernist writers such as Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, F. T. Marinetti, Eugène Jolas and Ezra Pound, key social realists like Kay Boyle and James T. Farrell and daring queer novelists and artists including Charles Henri Ford and Sidney Hunt. Providing extensive scholarly commentary, analyses and newly discovered biographical information, this book sets the anthology in its broader cultural context. This is an essential resource for those interested in print and book history, the politics and culture of the expatriate avant-garde and the reading machine's impact on reading, writing and literacy. Craig J. Saper is Professor of Language, Literacy & Culture at UMBC in Baltimore, Maryland. Eric B. White is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Oxford Brookes University.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword, Eric B. White
Introduction and Notes on the Text:-Readies for Bob Brown's Machine-Machine Art-Conceptual Poetry-Political Engagement-e-Literacies-, Craig J. Saper
Prospectus: Readies for Bob Brown's Machine [Facsimile]
Readies for Bob Brown's Machine [Facsimile]
Invent(st)ory: Contributors & Their Readies, Craig J. Saper
About the author
Robert Carlton Brown (1886-1959) was an American author, journalist, publisher, and collector. Born in Chicago. Brown wrote pulp fiction, non-fiction, cookbooks, avant-garde publications, and experimented with a book of visual poetry.
