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The age of huts (compleat)

By Ronald , Silliman

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0520250141, 978-0-520-25014-7, 9780520940420, 0520940423, 978-0-520-25016-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1127648 bytes)
Series
New California poetry
Edition
1
Pages
311\326
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
American poetry. POETRY -- General. Poetry.

Description

Between the Age of Innocence and the Age of Experience comes The Age of Huts. This book brings together for the first time all of the poems in Ron Silliman'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. Each poem offers a radically different approach toward using language to explore the world. One of the founding works of Language Poetry, The Age of Huts is about everything, more or less literally, as each sentence, even each phrase, embarks on its own narrative, linking together to form a large polyphonic investigation of contemporary life. From Ketjak, one of the first poems to employ "the new sentence," to 2197, a serial work that scrambles the vocabulary and grammar of its sentences, The Age of Huts questions everything we have known about poetry in order to see the world anew.

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