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Zusatztext "In Silliman's hands! language-so often manipulated for political coercion and economic gain-is restored to its most mechanical! primal functions! upending our ideas of the poem and of the sentence! and reawakening us to what it is we're doing when we're reading! writing! thinking." Informationen zum Autor Ron Silliman is the author of more than twenty volumes of poetry. His most recent books include Woundwood! Under Albany! MultiPlex! and N/O. and the weblog "Silliman's Blog" (ronsilliman.blogspot.com). Klappentext "It would be impossible to overestimate the importance of Ron Silliman's Age of Huts ; it was ground-breaking when it first began to appear, piecemeal, a quarter of a century ago, and it remains a revolutionary work today. With its proliferative architecture, its encyclopedic arc, and its endlessly inventive methodology, The Age of Huts , with virtually every sentence, renews its engagement with the world."—Lyn Hejinian Zusammenfassung Brings together all of the poems in auhtor's Age of Huts cycle, including Ketjak, Sunset Debris, The Chinese Notebook, and 2197, as well as two key satellite texts, Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps, and BART. This title questions everything we have known about poetry in order to see the world anew. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Ketjak Sunset Debris The Chinese Notebook 2197 I am Marion Delgado I Meet Osip Brik Rhizome Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Bird Trap The Joy of Physics San Francisco Destroyed by Fire The Four Protozoas Turk Street News Invasion of the Stalinoids Allied Gardens The Scheme of Things Considerations of Representability Do City Satellite Texts Sitting Up! Standing! Taking Steps BART
