Poetry. Nonfiction. Poetics. The collection of seventeen writers is an investigation of the form of extended poem, series, sequence, or the idea of the book, an entire book of Larry Eigner's, Anything on Its Side, is included, as well as an entire book by Alice Notley: Parts of a Wedding. The collection contains commentary on the writings of those included, or poets writing commentary either as poem or essay on their own work, there are essays...
This extraordinary new book is essay-fiction-poetry, an experiment in form, "a serial novel for publication in the newspaper" that collapses the distinction between documentary and fiction. Leslie Scalapino is widely regarded as one of the best avant-garde writers in America today. This extraordinary new book is essay-fiction-poetry, an experiment in form, "a serial novel for publication in the newspaper" that collapses the distinction between...
Zither & Autobiography is comprised of two parts: the author's autobiography and a book-length poem entitled "Zither." Both parts of the book are concerned with facts and their undoing. In Autobiography, Scalapino explores her shifting memories of childhood-especially of years spent in Asia-experimenting with the memoir form to explore how a view of one's own life develops, how "fixed memories move as illusion." Zither opens with a unique narr...
A new collection of essays and poetry from the poet Library Journal called "one of the most unique and powerful writers at the forefront of American literature.