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Title: Zither & Autobiography (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Leslie Scalapino ISBN: 0-8195-6477-X Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 1 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: pseudo-intellectual ad hoc rants and the "no self" doctrine
Comment: In short, I see Scalapino's Zither and Autobiography as pseudo-intellectual name dropping(s)-oops!) which are ad hoc, at best. If there truly is "no self" then next time (shut the hell up) stop writing once that is stated because anything else you may have to say does not matter. I save my intense delving into ideas for those that have a "self." Aside from some interesting imagery, Zither has nothing of any kind to offer a reader. Do not waste your money on this book! If you find yourself needing a copy, then go to your local library and check it out first. I did not even want to give this book one star, but I had to in order to post this review.
P.S. I'll see you in Boise at the reading, Ms. "no-selfapino!"
Rating: 1
Summary: die you hippy buddha
Comment: I do hand it to the authors of these experimental pieces, they go out there - and Scalapino has incredible chutzpah to try this. Ultimately however, the experiment is unsuccessful, and the no-self doctrine becomes distracting for the other things going on in the text.
I have to say that personality is what is revealed in someone's poetry - but that is not here, rather a vacuous anatman doctrine - and yet what is present is the feeling one gets when they read something which is self-indulgent or self-aggrandizing.
I intend to go see Ms. SCalapino read and I intend to ask what the reader gets in return for all the self annihilation and obtuse prosody here. It's not even characteristically poetry - just non-sequitir drivel and an autobiography by someone who tells you every 2-3 pages that the self is a fiction and something else about a lack of authority in the world or in one's self.
Ms. Scalapino: Hurry up and disappear - and we readers can get on w/out this sort of "experiment" - for a SUCCESSFUL experimental self premise try Alice Notley, esp. "Disobedience" - turn away from this crap.
It sucks it's the suckiest suck that ever sucked it's a simulacra of suckiness it's not even genuinely sucky, it's
contrived to hide the fact that it sucks so bad. If you buy this you suck too sucker...
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Title: The Midnight by Susan Howe ISBN: 0811215385 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Sleeping With the Dictionary (New California Poetry, 4) by Harryette Romell Mullen ISBN: 0520231430 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Disobedience (Penguin Poets) by Alice Notley ISBN: 0141002298 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Tribute to Freud: Writing on the Wall--Advent by Hilda Doolittle, Norman Holmes Pearson, H ISBN: 0811208974 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: August, 1984 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The War: A Memoir by Marguerite Duras, Barbara Bray, Margurite Duras ISBN: 1565842219 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: August, 1994 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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