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Title: The Marginalization of Poetry by Bob Perelman ISBN: 0-691-02138-4 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 08 July, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Summary: Perelman's Lang Po Shuffle
Comment: Characterizing language writing is difficult. Indeed, as Perelman's lengthy discussion suggests, even deciding what to call it presents challenges. It seems appropriate then that this relatively recent, high profile discussion of language writing (Perelman's preferred phrase) and poetics assumes a jagged, irresolute, and discontinuous form. Opening with a poem that challenges its own generic status, and closing with a relatively lighthearted dream-sequence imagining a conversation in cartoon heaven between Frank O'Hara and Roland Barthes, this self-consciously sui generis critical text declines attempts at authoritative definition or unified argument, but nevertheless presents a relatively coherent set of critical gestures revolving around a consistent group of concerns and practices. After a survey of both sympathetic and antipathetic efforts to characterize language writing and its adherents, Perelman opts for the least contestable of assertions: that the movement began in San Francisco and New York in the early seventies in response to the political climate following the Vietnam War (and the literary climate of poetry workshops and so-called confessional poetry); that while "the initial phase of language writing is over; the careers of the participants continue"; that there is "widespread interest and controversy" over the issues that were and continue to be raised. Later, Perelman risks more specific contentions, many centering around the argument that "language writing is best understood as a group phenomenon" with a tendency to "do away with the reader as a separable category" and that this critique of subjectivity involves important political implications. Fusing reading and writing, poetry and criticism, Perelman's movement unsurprisingly emerges as late twentieth-century America's great leveler of what are regarded as arbitrary distinctions. Much here is introductory and general, straightening out misunderstandings, reformulating conventional polemics, and rendering the movement's political and theoretic dimensions in more user-friendly formulations. Balancing the attention given to Hejinian, Howe, and Palmer, Perelman's readings often focus on less-discussed language writers, including Rae Armantrout, Carla Harryman, and Ron Silliman. The most instructive surprise for readers already familiar with language writing may be Perelman's politically critical, though surprisingly non-partisan-and at times sympathetic readings-of unrelated writers including Frost, Bishop, William Stafford.
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Title: Tjanting by Ron Silliman ISBN: 1876857196 Publisher: Salt Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Writing Is an Aid to Memory (Sun & Moon Classics, No 141) by Lyn Hejinian ISBN: 1557132712 Publisher: Sun & Moon Press Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: My Life (Green Integer Books, 67) by Lyn Hejinian ISBN: 1931243336 Publisher: Green Integer Books Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: In the American Tree: Language, Realism, Thought by Ronald Silliman, Ron Silliman ISBN: 0943373514 Publisher: Natl Poetry Foundation Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Trouble With Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky by Bob Perelman ISBN: 0520087550 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $29.75 |
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