The Alphabet

Informationen zum Autor Ron Silliman is the author or editor of twenty-six books of poetry or criticism, among them The Age of Huts (compleat) , Tjanting , ABC , Demo to Ink, Paradise , (R) , What , Woundwood, and the memoir Under Albany . He edited the landmark poetry anthology In the American Tree , and he has received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, two Fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, and three arts commission grants from the state arts councils of California and Pennsylvania. His widely read Silliman's Blog, a daily journal devoted to contemporary poetry and poetics, has become a major force in online literary criticism. Klappentext "The Alphabet" is a remarkable and notorious literary achievement! decades in the making! one continually debated! discussed! and imitated since fragments first appeared in the 1970s. Zusammenfassung A work of American ethnography! a cultural collage of artifacts! moments! episodes! and voices - historical and private - that capture the dizzying evolution of America's social! cultural! and literary consciousness.

Product details

• Authors: Ron Silliman, Ron/ Bernstein Silliman
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.09.2008
• EAN: 9780817354930
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5493-0
• No. of pages: 1062
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 57 mm
• Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetic; Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetic
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama